阅览

閱覽

yuèlǎn

verb HSK 7-9 #50,844

Meanings

HSK 6

这些档案只能在现场阅览，原件不能外借。

Zhèxiē dàng'àn zhǐ néng zài xiànchǎng yuèlǎn, yuánjiàn bù néng wàijiè.

These files can only be read on site; the originals cannot be borrowed.

HSK 7-9

读者可以在图书馆免费阅览最新的期刊。

Dúzhě kěyǐ zài túshūguǎn miǎnfèi yuèlǎn zuìxīn de qīkān.

Readers may look through the latest journals free of charge at the library.

HSK 7-9

阅览室很安静，请把手机调成静音。

Yuèlǎnshì hěn ānjìng, qǐng bǎ shǒujī tiáochéng jìngyīn.

The reading room is quiet; please put your phone on silent.

Formal, and mostly institutional. You meet it on library notices, in 阅览室 (reading room) and in wording like 供读者阅览. For ordinary reading, say 看 or 读.

阅 yuè

览 lǎn