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藏书

cángshū

to collect books

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to collect books

02

library collection

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 藏书 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 藏书 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我们学校的图书馆藏书很多。wǒ men xué xiào de tú shū guǎn cáng shū hěn duō。

There are a lot of books in our school's library.

我校图书馆藏书二百五十万册。wǒ xiào tú shū guǎn cáng shū èr bǎi wǔ shí wàn cè。

My school library has a collection of 2.5 million books.

听说那位历史教授拥有一万四千多本藏书。tīng shuō nà wèi lì shǐ jiào shòu yōng yǒu yī wàn sì qiān duō běn cáng shū。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 藏书.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 藏书.

Directly before

  • 图书馆藏书2
  • 本藏书1

Directly after

  • 藏书很多1
  • 藏书二百五十万1
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 藏书

What does 藏书 mean in Chinese?

藏书 (cángshū) means to collect books.

How do you pronounce 藏书?

藏书 is pronounced cángshū.

Is 藏书 an HSK word?

藏书 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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