Example sentences
zhè这běn本shū书bù不cuò错。
This book is good.
shū书zài在nǎ哪ér儿？
Where are the books?
The story behind the character
书
The traditional 書 is 聿 (a brush) over 者. Holding a brush and writing. That's 书. Xu Shen wrote 书, 箸也: "to write." Only later did it come to mean the book, the thing that got written down.