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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.

尚书shàng shū

high official / government minister

尚书郎shàng shū láng

ancient official title

工具书gōng jù shū

reference book (such as dictionary, almanac, gazetteer etc)

悔过书huǐ guò shū

written repentance

惠书huì shū

(formal) your letter

意向书yì xiàng shū

letter of intent (LOI) (commerce)

成书chéng shū

to finish (writing a book) / to appear in book form / a book already in circulation

战书zhàn shū

written war challenge

户部尚书hù bù shàng shū

Minister of Revenue (from the Han dynasty onwards)

手书shǒu shū

to write personally / personal letter

投书tóu shū

to submit a written piece (letter, article, opinion piece etc)

折节读书zhé jié dú shū

to start reading furiously, contrary to previous habit (idiom)

招股书zhāo gǔ shū

(finance) share prospectus

招股说明书zhāo gǔ shuō míng shū

prospectus

掉书袋diào shū dài

lit. to wave around one's bookbag (idiom) / fig. to show off one's erudition / a person who does so

推荐书tuī jiàn shū

recommendation letter

支书zhī shū

branch secretary / secretary of a branch of the Communist Party or the Communist Youth League / abbr. for 支部書記|支部书记

教书匠jiāo shū jiàng

teacher (usually humorous, self-deprecating or derogatory)

教科书式jiào kē shū shì

(neologism c. 2018) worthy of being used as a textbook example / exemplary / classic / quintessential

文弱书生wén ruò shū shēng

(idiom) frail scholar

文书处理wén shū chǔ lǐ

paperwork / clerical tasks / (Tw) word processing

新娘秘书xīn niáng mì shū

(Tw) bridal stylist

历书lì shū

almanac

有声书yǒu shēng shū

audiobook

板书bǎn shū

to write on the blackboard / writing on the blackboard

楷书kǎi shū

regular script (Chinese calligraphic style)

标书biāo shū

bid or tender submission or delivery / bid or tender document

檄书xí shū

(old, now used figuratively) official call to arms / official denunciation

正书zhèng shū

regular script (Chinese calligraphic style)

淫书yín shū

obscene book / pornography

温书wēn shū

to review lessons / to go over one's lessons

焚书坑儒fén shū kēng rú

to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇[Qín Shǐ huáng])

无巧不成书wú qiǎo bù chéng shū

curious coincidence

牛角挂书niú jiǎo guà shū

lit. to hang one's books on cow horns (idiom) / fig. to be diligent in one's studies

琴书qín shū

traditional art form, consisting of sung story telling with musical accompaniment

琴棋书画qín qí shū huà

(idiom) the four arts of the Chinese scholar (guqin, Go, calligraphy and painting) / (by extension) the accomplishments of a well-educated person

申诉书shēn sù shū

written appeal

毕业证书bì yè zhèng shū

(PRC) (since 1985) graduation certificate, which certifies that the student has graduated, but not necessarily met all requirements to be awarded a degree certificate 學位證書|学位证书[xué wèi zhèng shū] / (1981-1985) graduation certificate, which certified that the student graduated, and, if it included a final sentence indicating a degree type, also certified that the student met all the requirements for a degree

疾书jí shū

to scribble rapidly

白皮书bái pí shū

white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation) / white book

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