圖書

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See also: 図書 and 图书

Chinese

		diagram; to plan; picture diagram; to plan; picture; drawing; chart	book; letter
trad. (圖書)		圖	書
simp. (图书)		图	书

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): túshū

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄨˊ ㄕㄨ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tou⁴ syu¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tô͘-su / tô͘-chir / tô͘-si

(Teochew, Peng'im): dou⁵ ze¹
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶du-sy

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: túshū
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˊ ㄕㄨ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: túshu
  - Wade–Giles: tʻu²-shu¹
  - Yale: tú-shū
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: twushu
  - Palladius: тушу (tušu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu³⁵ ʂu⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: tou⁴ syu¹
  - Yale: tòuh syū
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tou⁴ sy¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: tou⁴ xu¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯²¹ syː⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘-su
  - Tâi-lô: tôo-su
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dosw
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tɔ²⁴⁻²² su⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tɔ²⁴⁻¹¹ su⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔ²³⁻³³ su⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘-chir
  - Tâi-lô: tôo-tsir
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔ²⁴⁻²² t͡sɯ³³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘-si
  - Tâi-lô: tôo-si
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dosy
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔ¹³⁻²² si⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: dou⁵ ze¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tôu tsṳ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sɯ³³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶du-sy
  - MiniDict: du^去 sy
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³du-sr
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /du²² sz̩⁴⁴/

Noun

圖書

books (as a collective term)
(Wu, dated) seal; chop; stamp (device for stamping designs, or indentation or imprint made by stamping)

Synonyms

冊／册 (cè) (as a classifier, or Classical Chinese)
冊子／册子 (cèzi)
卷 (juàn)
撰述 (zhuànshù) (formal)
文曲 (wénqǔ) (Classical Chinese)
文章 (wénzhāng)
書／书 (shū)
書冊／书册 (shūcè) (dated or Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien)
書卷／书卷 (shūjuàn)
書本／书本 (shūběn) (as a collective term)
書籍／书籍 (shūjí) (as a collective term)
本 (běn) (as a classifier)
本子 (běnzi)
本本 (běnběn) (informal, diminutive)
版籍 (bǎnjí) (literary)
簿 (bù) (used in compounds, or Classical Chinese)
簿仔 (Hakka, Hokkien)
籍 (jí) (used in compounds, or Classical Chinese)
經籍／经籍 (jīngjí)
著 (zhù) (used in compounds, or Classical Chinese)
著作 (zhùzuò)
藝文／艺文 (yìwén)

印仔 (Hokkien)
印章 (yìnzhāng)
圖章／图章 (túzhāng)
戳子 (⁷tshoq-tsy) (Wu, dated)
章子 (zhāngzi) (dialectal)

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (圖書):

→ Japanese: 図(と)書(しょ) (tosho)
→ Korean: 도서(圖書) (doseo)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
圖	書
と Hyōgai	しょ Grade: 2
on'yomi

Noun

圖(と)書(しょ) • (tosho)

Kyūjitai form of 図書: books

Korean

Hanja in this term
圖	書

Noun

圖書 • (doseo) (hangeul 도서)

hanja form^? of 도서 (“book”)

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