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书架

shūjià

bookshelf

HSK 3 · Topic “Home and things”
A shelf holding several books
Memory picture

Characters in this word

书 shū

Strokes
4
Radical
丨 — vertical stroke
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

架 jià

Strokes
9
Radical
木 — tree
Made of
加 to add to, to increase, to augment 木 tree
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 书架在墙边。 Shūjià zài qiáng biān. The bookshelf is by the wall.
  • 我擦书架。 Wǒ cā shūjià. I wipe the bookshelf.
  • 书架上有书。 Shūjià shàng yǒu shū. There are books on the bookshelf.

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