资料室

資料室
zīliàoshì
noun #32,575

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 archives room
  2. 2 reference room
  3. 3 documents room / records library

Examples

Qǐng dào zīliàoshì jièyuè zhè běn qīkān.
Please go to the reference room to borrow this journal.
Gōngsī de zīliàoshì chǔcún zhe suǒyǒu hétong.
The company's records room holds all the contracts.

Tips

usage
Common in offices, schools, libraries, and universities. Distinguish from 图书馆 (túshūguǎn, 'library' — the public-facing institution) and 档案 (dàng'ànshì, 'archive of personnel/historical files'). 资料室 holds reference materials, journals, internal documents — somewhere between a library and an archive.
memory
资料 ('material / data') + ('room') = 'data room' / 'materials room'. The same appears in 教室 ('classroom'), 办公室 ('office'), 实验室 ('laboratory') — productive 'X-room' suffix.

Stroke Order

liào
shì