看書

看书
kànshū
  1. to read
  2. to study

CEDICT

  1. (intransitive) to read books; to read
  2. (intransitive) to read; to study
  3. to read books; to read
  4. to read; to study

Wiktionary

  1. 讀書；閱讀
  2. 讀；學習

維基詞典

Examples

我看書很慢的。

I am reading very slowly.

Source: Tatoeba

看书很有意思。

Reading a book is interesting.

Reading books is interesting.

Source: Tatoeba

看書時不能吃東西。

You can't read while you're eating.

Source: Tatoeba

我看书的时候睡着了。

I fell asleep while reading.

While reading a book, I fell asleep.

Source: Tatoeba

看書可以學會很多生字。

You can pick up a lot of words by reading.

Source: Tatoeba

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Entry Composition

1 看 kàn
  1. to see; to look at
  2. to read
  3. to watch
  4. to visit; to call on
  5. to consider; to regard as
  6. to look after
  7. to treat (a patient or illness)
  8. to depend on
  9. to feel (that)
  10. (after a verb) to give it a try
  11. to watch out for
2 書 shū
  1. book
  2. letter
  3. document
  4. to write

classifiers: 本, 冊, 部

Related entries

審讀 shěndú
  1. to read (a draft)
  2. to review
念 niàn
  1. to read
  2. to study (a subject)
  3. to attend (a school)
  4. to read aloud
  5. to miss (sb)
  6. idea
  7. remembrance
  8. twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿 niàn)

classifier: 頓

念这个。

Read this.

Source: Tatoeba

拜讀 bàidú (polite) to read (sth)
讀取 dúqǔ (of a computer etc) to read (data)
閱覽 yuèlǎn to read
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