书
shū
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 書
A book, a volume of pages to read. The measure word is 本: 一本书 'a book', 这本书 'this book'. 看书 is 'to read', literally 'to look at a book', and a bookshop is 书店. A letter that you post is not this word but 信.
Sách, quyển sách để đọc. Lượng từ là 本: 一本书 (một quyển sách), 这本书 (quyển sách này). 看书 là đọc sách (nghĩa đen là “xem sách”); hiệu sách là 书店. Còn bức thư gửi đi thì là 信, không phải chữ này.
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “书” mean?
A book, a volume of pages to read. The measure word is 本: 一本书 'a book', 这本书 'this book'. 看书 is 'to read', literally 'to look at a book', and a bookshop is 书店. A letter that you post is not this word but 信.
Is “书” formal or informal?
书 is generally neutral.