书
book / letter / document / CL:本[ben3],冊|册[ce4],部[bu4] / to write
书 character breakdown
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)
Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Gitta Giraffe (gu-) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the encampment's living room ((e)n3).
vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]
Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and is cracking it open to eat its bone marrow.
"dot" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 3) / see also 點|点[dian3]
This character shall be represented by a petal (丶) when appearing in other characters.
Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is napping in the space station's living room (Ø3) and hugging a petal (丶).
Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is napping in the space station's living room (Ø3) and hugging a petal (丶).
Character component without intrinsic meaning
Characters with 书 as component
书
is not used as a component in another character.
Words with 书
to write without lifting one's pen from the paper / (in the Romanization of Chinese) to write two or more syllables together as a single word (not separated by spaces)
lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it / fig. to misinterpret the original meaning / to pile up errors / refers to the letter from capital 郢[Ying3] of 楚[Chu3] in which the inadvertent words "hold up the candle" are mistaken by the minister of 燕[Yan1] as "promote the wise"
see 行萬里路，讀萬卷書|行万里路，读万卷书[xing2 wan4 li3 lu4 , du2 wan4 juan4 shu1]