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Mythic Mandarin

图书馆 (tú shū guǎn): meaning and stroke order

图书馆 (tú shū guǎn) means library, CL:家个.

图书馆

Simplified
图书馆
Traditional
圖書館
Pinyin
tú shū guǎn

Stroke order of 图书馆

图

  • tú diagram; picture
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 圖

Stroke by stroke

书

  • Shū abbr. for 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1]
  • shū book; letter
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 書

Stroke by stroke

馆

  • guǎn variant of 館|馆[guan3]
  • guǎn building; shop
  • 11 strokes
  • Traditional form: 舘

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 图书馆

  1. tú shū guǎn Traditional 圖書館
    • library
    • CL:家[jia1],個|个[ge4]

Radicals of the characters

图
Radical 囗 (Kangxi radical 31) · 8 strokes · built from 囗 and 冬
书
Radical 乙 (Kangxi radical 5) · 4 strokes
馆
Radical 饣 (Kangxi radical 184) in its simplified form · 11 strokes · 饣 on the left, 官 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

图书馆 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 学校图书馆最近出了一件怪事：每个星期一早上，还书箱里都会多出一本旧书，书里夹着一朵干花。

    xuéxiào túshūguǎn zuìjìn chū le yí jiàn guàishì měi gè xīngqīyī zǎoshang huánshūxiāng lǐ dōu huì duō chū yì běn jiù shū shū lǐ jiā zhe yì duǒ gān huā

    Something odd had been happening at the university library: every Monday morning there was an extra old book in the return box, with a dried flower pressed inside.

    From the story Flowers in the book return HSK 5

  • 大三那年，她偷偷报了一个周末的甜点班，每个星期六都跟家里说去图书馆。

    dàsān nà nián tā tōutōu bào le yí gè zhōumò de tiándiǎn bān měi gè xīngqīliù dōu gēn jiāli shuō qù túshūguǎn

    In her third year she secretly signed up for a weekend pastry course, and every Saturday she told her family she was going to the library.

    From the story The three-tier cake HSK 5

Stories using 图书馆

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).