手动挡 (手動擋)
shǒu dòng dǎng
Pinyin

Definition

手动挡 (手動擋)
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shǒu dòng dǎng
  1. manual gear change
  2. shift stick

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

分手
fēn shǒu
  1. 1 to part company
  2. 2 to split up
  3. 3 to break up
射手座
Shè shǒu zuò
  1. 1 Sagittarius (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
  2. 2 popular variant of 人馬座|人马座[Rén mǎ zuò]
手
shǒu
  1. 1 hand
  2. 2 (formal) to hold
  3. 3 person engaged in certain types of work
  4. 4 person skilled in certain types of work
  5. 5 personal(ly)
  6. 6 convenient
  7. 7 classifier for skill
  8. 8 classifier: 双 shuāng
  9. 9 classifier: 只 zhī
手机
shǒu jī
  1. 1 cell phone
  2. 2 mobile phone
  3. 3 classifier: 部 bù
  4. 4 classifier: 支 zhī
一手
yī shǒu
  1. 1 a skill
  2. 2 mastery of a trade
  3. 3 by oneself
  4. 4 without outside help

Idioms (20)

一手交钱，一手交货
yī shǒu jiāo qián , yī shǒu jiāo huò
  1. 1 lit. one hand exchanges the cash, the other the goods (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to pay for what you want in cash
  3. 3 simple and direct transaction
七手八脚
qī shǒu bā jiǎo
  1. 1 (idiom) with everyone lending a hand (eagerly but somewhat chaotically)
上下其手
shàng xià qí shǒu
  1. 1 to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
  2. 2 fig. conspiring to defraud
不怕神一样的对手，就怕猪一样的队友
bù pà shén yī yàng de duì shǒu , jiù pà zhū yī yàng de duì yǒu
  1. 1 a boneheaded teammate can do you more harm than the most formidable opponent (idiom)
人有失手，马有失蹄
rén yǒu shī shǒu , mǎ yǒu shī tí
  1. 1 lit. just as humans make mistakes, so can a horse stumble (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. everyone makes mistakes
  3. 3 even the best fall down sometimes

Sample Sentences

不行的，那是手动挡汽车。咱们自动挡的不行。
bùxíng de ，nà shì shǒudòngdǎng qìchē 。zánmen zìdòngdǎng de bùxíng 。
That won't work. That is a manual transmission. It wouldn't work with our automatic.
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会开车的人肯定要开手动挡，自动挡哪儿过瘾？一点儿手感也没有。
huì kāichē de rén kěndìng yào kāi shǒudòngdǎng ，zìdòngdǎng nǎr guòyǐn ？yīdiǎnr shǒugǎn yě méiyǒu 。
People who can drive definitely want to drive manual. Where's the fun in automatic? It doesn't feel like anything at all.
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好好好，你的车，你自己做主。哎，你的车是手动挡啊？
hǎo hǎo hǎo ，nǐ de chē ，nǐ zìjǐ zuòzhǔ 。āi ，nǐ de chē shì shǒudòngdǎng a ？
OK, OK. It's your car, you're the boss. Hey, does your car have manual shifting?
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