図書

としょ · tosho · JLPT N3 · noun

book

📚 図書 = diagram + writing: maps and texts together make books

図 (to) means drawing, chart or map; 書 (sho) means writing, as in 書く. Old collections held both charts and texts, so 図書 came to mean books. You see it in 図書館 (toshokan), library.

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