book

booklet; classifier for books

a picture of 册 → bamboo strips bound into a book

Ancient Chinese books were made by writing on bamboo strips and binding them together with cord. The character captures that form directly: vertical strips held as one object.

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这套书一共有三

zhè tào shū yī gòng yǒu sān cè。

This set of books has three volumes in total.

老师让我们每人买第一课本。

lǎo shī ràng wǒ men měi rén mǎi dì yī cè kè běn。

The teacher asked each of us to buy the first volume of the textbook.

Words with 册

集邮册

jí yóu cè

stamp album

点名册

diǎn míng cè

register of names

册历

cè lì

diary

册亨

cè hēng

see 冊亨縣|册亨县[Ce4 heng1 Xian4]

册亨县

cè hēng xiàn

Ceheng, a county in Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 黔西南布依族苗族自治州[Qian2 xi1 nan2 Bu4 yi1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Guizhou

册子

cè zi

a book

册封

cè fēng

to confer a title upon sb

册府元龟

cè fǔ yuán guī

Prime tortoise of the record bureau, Song dynasty historical encyclopedia of political essays, autobiography, memorials and decrees, compiled 1005-1013 under Wang Qinruo 王欽若|王钦若 and Yang Yi 楊億|杨亿, 1000 scrolls

册立

cè lì

to confer a title on (an empress or a prince)

分册

fēn cè

fascicle; volume (of a book)

另册

lìng cè

the Other List (Qing dynasty register of outlaws)

史册

shǐ cè

annals

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