HSK 5 · Function Words

册 cè “book” in Chinese

Traditional 冊

What 册 means

  1. book
  2. booklet
  3. classifier for books

How to say 册

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale册cè4th tone, falling

册 in a sentence

  1. 他有多少册图书？

    Tā yǒu duōshǎo cè túshū?

    How many books does he have?

    Sentence #1450443 from Tatoeba

  2. 这本导游册子或许会对你的旅行有帮助。

    Zhè běn dǎoyóu cèzi huòxǔ huì duì nǐ de lǚxíng yǒu bāngzhù.

    This guidebook might be of use to you on your trip.

    Sentence #1502350 from Tatoeba

How 册 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.

The character 册 (cè) with each of its parts in a different colour
册cèbook
  • 冂down box · jiōng
  • 冂down box · jiōng
  • 一one · yī

How to write 册

册 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

册 (cè) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 册 (cè). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 册

Words with 册

注册zhùcè · to register

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不见得bújiànde · not necessarily不然bùrán · otherwise不如bùrú · not equal to不要紧búyàojǐn · unimportant朝cháo · towards除非chúfēi · only if (…此外cǐwài · besides从而cóng'ér · thus

FAQs

册 (cè) means “book” or “booklet”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it cè: cè with a 4th 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, 册 is written 冊. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ce with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 册 from the suggestions. Typing ce into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
册 is an HSK 5 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.