to circle / to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return / to revolve / Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) / time / classifier for acts of a play / section or chapter (of a classic book)

book / letter / document / CL: 本, 冊｜册, 部 / to write

to open / to start / to turn on / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / to operate (a vehicle) / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文｜开尔文 / abbr. for 開本｜开本, book format

to place an order / to book ahead

book / booklet / classifier for books

specific topic (addressed by a book, lecture, TV program etc) / article, report or program etc on a specific topic

to break / to fracture / to snap / to suffer loss / to bend / to twist / to turn / to change direction / convinced / to convert into (currency) / discount / rebate / tenth (in price) / classifier for theatrical scenes / to fold / accounts book

to write / literary work / book / article / writings / CL: 部

scroll / book / volume / chapter / examination paper / classifier for books, paintings: volume, scroll

memorandum / aide-memoire / memorandum book

shift in the trend of events / turnaround / plot shift in a book / turn in the conversation

booking / reservation / to book / to make an appointment

book / notebook / Japanese-style self-published comic (esp. an erotic one), aka "dōjinshi" / CL: 本 / edition

at a glance / (in book titles) overview

to read a book / to study / to attend school

to make known / to show / to prove / to write / book / outstanding

classics / sacred book / scripture / to pass through / to undergo / to bear / to endure / warp (textile) / longitude / menstruation / channel (TCM) / abbr. for economics 經濟｜经济

(technical) manual / (book of) directions / synopsis (of a play or film) / specification (patent) / CL: 本

a book / a register / account-book

electronic book / e-book / e-book reader

good-looking / nice-looking / good (of a movie, book, TV show etc) / embarrassed / humiliated

surname Yi / abbr. for 易經｜易经, the Book of Changes

advance sale / to sell in advance / to book

fragment (of speech etc) / extract (from book etc) / episode (of story etc)

(Tw) to cram (from Taiwanese 齧書, Tai-lo pr. [khè su], lit. to gnaw a book) / to study / see also 啃書｜啃书

abbr. for Shijing 詩經｜诗经, the Book of Songs

Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature / Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject / Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government / Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC

quotation (from a book or existing source)

secret book or collection of books

to reserve a seat / to book a table / reservation

divinatory diagram / one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經｜易经 / one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經｜易经

this text / article / the main body of a book

Superman, comic book superhero

address book / directory

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

book / CL: 本

permanent / constant / fixed / usual / ordinary / rule (old) / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes (䷟)

ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs / pot (dialect) / to enter upon a period of (classical) / Kangxi radical 206 / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes

copy (of a document) / book with model calligraphy for copying

book or record / registry / roll / place of one's family or ancestral records / membership

page of a book

an account book / a ledger / a bill

the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經｜易经 / gossip / gossipy

spring and autumn / four seasons / year / a person's age / annals (used in book titles)

special (or reserved) train (or bus etc) / limousine / private car used as a taxi and booked via a smartphone app

The Book of Changes ("I Ching")

book contract

hardcover (book) / elaborately packaged / opposite: 簡裝｜简装

to lay down (a rule, a plan of action) / to draw up / booked out (i.e. already fully booked)

contact book

one of the three main divisions of the Book of Songs 詩經｜诗经

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

treasure-house / treasury / treasure-trove (often fig., book of treasured wisdom)

canonical text / treasury (i.e. book of treasured wisdom)

to decrease / to lose / to damage / to harm / (coll.) to speak sarcastically / to deride / caustic / mean / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes (䷨)

best-seller / best-selling book / blockbuster

to line (a street) / to fill up (a space) / to be packed full / to fill up (one's schedule) / to be fully booked / (old) to overthrow the Manchu regime

picture book

edition (of a book etc) / edition number

Batman, comic book superhero

main text (as opposed to footnotes) / main body (of a book)

collection of documents / library / book series / sequence of data, esp. genome

the back cover of a book

reference book

another name for Book of Changes (I Ching) 易經｜易经

to crowd together / to pile up / to cluster / (book) collection / series

scroll (book or painting)

to close (box, book, mouth etc)

book review / book notice

classic book / sutra

unabridged / complete book

to study attentively (a book) / to delve into

impression of a book / opinion expressed in a book review

notes on the use of a book / guide to the reader

revised edition (of a book)

Guanzi or Guan Zhong 管仲 (-645 BC), famous politician of Qi 齊國｜齐国 of Spring and Autumn period / Guanzi, classical book containing writings of Guan Zhong and his school

author's preface / autobiographical notes as introduction to a book

name of a book / reputation as calligrapher

a poem / a composition in verse / fig. epic (compared with historical epic) / the biblical Book of Psalms

Jimmy Liao (1958-), pen name of 廖福彬, Taiwanese illustrator and picture book writer

imperial edict / heavenly book (superstition) / obscure or illegible writing / double dutch

to thumb through / to flip through (a book)

study of the Book of Changes 易經｜易经

random thoughts / (in book titles etc) impressions / jottings

Book of Exodus / Second Book of Moses

one of the three main divisions of the Book of Songs 詩經｜诗经

Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經｜五经

First book of Kings

to revise and enlarge (a book) / to augment a purchase order

guide (e.g. book or other printed material)

Genesis (first book of the Bible)

Iron Man, comic book superhero

Spider-Man, comic book superhero

original (of a document) / reserved copy (of a library book)

audiobook / recording of a person reading the text of a book

Aquaman, DC comic book superhero (Tw)

Book of Numbers / Fourth Book of Moses

(often used in book or chapter titles) general introduction / overview

binding and layout (of a book etc)

pornographic book