Chinese symbol for “textbook”
教科书
jiào kē shū
Traditional: 教科書
textbook; measure word: 本 (běn)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for textbook is 教科书 (jiào kē shū), defined as: textbook; measure word: 本 (běn).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “textbook”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 教科书.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 教育 | jiào yù | to educate; to teach |
| 教师 (教師) | jiào shī | teacher; 个 (gè) |
| 宗教 | zōng jiào | religion |
| 教授 | jiāo shòu | to teach (a subject) |
| 教学 (教學) | jiāo xué | to teach |
| 科技 | kē jì | science and technology |
| 科学 (科學) | kē xué | science; scientific knowledge |
| 科学家 (科學家) | kē xué jiā | scientist |
| 书记 (書記) | shū ji | secretary (head of a Communist Party or Communist Youth League organization); clerk; scribe |
See also: Japanese symbol for “textbook”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.