Definition
籍 is a bound form (b.f.) — it cannot stand alone and always appears as part of a compound word. It has two broad sense clusters: 'book/record' (in 书籍 'books', 古籍 'ancient texts') and 'registered status/place' (in 国籍 'nationality', 户籍 'household registration', 原籍 'one's ancestral home'). When you see 籍 in a compound, context determines which sense is active.
b.f.
(bound form) bookrecordwork of literature(bound form) membershipstatusplace of origin (in compounds like 国籍, 户籍, 原籍)
Examples
- ，。Tā gǎi le guó jí, xiànzài shì Zhōngguó gōngmín.He changed his nationality and is now a Chinese citizen.
- 。Zhè jiā túshūguǎn shōucáng le hěn duō gǔ jí.This library has a large collection of ancient books.
- ，。Wǒ de yuán jí zài Shāndōng, dàn cóngxiǎo zài Shànghǎi zhǎng dà.My ancestral home is in Shandong, but I grew up in Shanghai.
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