手
shǒu
Pinyin
Definition
手
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- hand
- (formal) to hold
- person engaged in certain types of work
- person skilled in certain types of work
- personal(ly)
- convenient
- classifier for skill
- CL:雙|双[shuāng],隻|只[zhī]
Character Decomposition
Compounds (30)
- 1 I
- 2 me
- 3 my
- 1 old variant of 拿[ná]
- 1 to hold
- 2 to seize
- 3 to catch
- 4 to apprehend
- 5 to take
- 6 (used in the same way as 把[bǎ]: to mark the following noun as a direct object)
Related Words (20)
- 1 to part company
- 2 to split up
- 3 to break up
- 1 Sagittarius (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
- 2 popular variant of 人馬座|人马座[Rén mǎ zuò]
- 1 a skill
- 2 mastery of a trade
- 3 by oneself
- 4 without outside help
Idioms (20)
一手交钱,一手交货
- 1 lit. one hand exchanges the cash, the other the goods (idiom)
- 2 fig. to pay for what you want in cash
- 3 simple and direct transaction
七手八脚
- 1 (idiom) with everyone lending a hand (eagerly but somewhat chaotically)
上下其手
- 1 to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
- 2 fig. conspiring to defraud
不怕神一样的对手,就怕猪一样的队友
- 1 a boneheaded teammate can do you more harm than the most formidable opponent (idiom)
人有失手,马有失蹄
- 1 lit. just as humans make mistakes, so can a horse stumble (idiom)
- 2 fig. everyone makes mistakes
- 3 even the best fall down sometimes
Sample Sentences
智能手机“麻雀虽小,五脏俱全”。你可以打电话,传信息,还可以拍照。
A smartphone is small but it has every function you may need. You can make a call, text and also take pictures.
洗手间
washroom
男洗手间
male washroom
女洗手间
female washroom
歌手:罗大佑
Artist: Luo, Dayou
歌手:刘家昌
Artist: Liu Jiachang
歌手:白光
Artist: BaiGuang
秦宇终于松了一口气,原来是个乌龙,只是虚惊一场罢了。他趁机问了女孩儿的名字,聊了几句,原来女孩儿喜欢看话剧,同时也是个古董控,一个月前去了上海玩,在上海看了几场话剧,还去逛了一些跳蚤市场。秦宇原本想加她微信,但女孩儿说手机上周摔坏了,暂时没有手机可以用。于是他们直接约了隔天表演开场前的半小时在剧院门口碰面。
QinYu took a load off his mind. As it turned out that it's a mistake, merely a false alarm. He seized the opportunity and asked the girl's name, chatted for a while. In fact, the girl likes to watch stage drama, and she's a big fan of antique as well. Last month, she went to visit Shanghai, watched some play there, and visited some flea market. QinYu was thinking to add her on Wechat, but the girl said that she broke her phone last week, so she doesn't have a phone. Therefore, they decided to meet in front of the theatre half an hour before the play starts the next day.
我想和你坦白一件事,我刚不小心摔了你的手机。
I want to confess to you that I just accidentally dropped your phone.
宝宝的手和脚都发育得很好,没有异常。
The baby's arms and legs are growing perfectly, and there are no abnormalities.