Reading a book is interesting.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
看书
to read
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to read
02
to study
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 看书 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 看书 appears in 53 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I love reading books.
Don't eat while reading.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 看书.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 看书.
Directly before
- 在看书8
- 我看书4
- 里看书4
- 边看书3
- 正在看书3
Directly after
- 看书吗4
- 看书可以2
- 看书的2
- 看书很1
- 看书了1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 看书
What does 看书 mean in Chinese?
看书 (kànshū) means to read.
How do you pronounce 看书?
看书 is pronounced kànshū.
Is 看书 an HSK word?
看书 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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