Wǒ huán le cóng túshūguǎn jiè de shū, yòu jiè le xiē xīn de.
I returned the books I’d borrowed from the library and borrowed some new ones.
Sentence #333104 from Tatoeba · translation adapted
How 图书馆 is built
Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.
图túdiagram
囗enclosure · wéi
冬part of the character
Memory aidSimplified from 圖. Picture a border 囗 drawn around the land: a map, a picture.
书shūbook
书 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.
Memory aidSimplified from 書: a hand holding a brush 聿 over words: to write, a book.
馆guǎnbuilding
饣eat form of 食 · shí
官official · guān
Memory aidFood 饣 with 官 (guān) for the sound: once a guest house, now a public building.
How to write 图书馆
图 8 strokes · 书 4 strokes · 馆 11 strokes
Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.
Stroke order chart for 图书馆 (túshūguǎn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
图书馆 (túshūguǎn) means “library”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it túshūguǎn: tú with a 2nd tone, then shū with a 1st tone, then guǎn with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 图书馆 is written 圖書館. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 家 (jiā) or 个 (gè). For example, one library is 一家图书馆 (yì jiā túshūguǎn).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tushuguan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 图书馆 from the suggestions. Typing tushuguan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
图书馆 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.
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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.
图tú2nd tone, rising
书shū1st tone, high and level
馆guǎn3rd tone, dipping
