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教材

jiào cái

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Measure word 本

教材 (jiào cái) means "teaching material, textbook". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 教材 means

1. teaching material

The characters in 教材

• 教jiāoto teach; to instruct
• 材cáimaterial; timber; ability

Example sentences

• 我们有必要为上这门课买本教材吗？
  Wǒmen yǒu bìyào wèi shàng zhè mén kè mǎi běn jiàocái ma?
  Will it be necessary for us to buy a book for this class?

Words containing 教材

• 反面教材fǎn miàn jiào cáinegative example; sth that teaches one what not to do

Where 教材 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of School, Education & Training (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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