手帕
shǒu pà
Pinyin

Definition

手帕
 - 
shǒu pà
  1. handkerchief
  2. CL:方[fāng]

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

抽纸给你擤鼻涕。卷筒纸放在厕所。手帕纸可以随身带。
chōuzhǐ gěi nǐ xǐng bítì 。juǎntǒngzhǐ fàng zài cèsuǒ 。shǒupàzhǐ kěyǐ suíshēn dài 。
The boxes of tissues are for blowing your nose. The rolls are for bathroom use. You can carry the handkerchiefs around with you.
Go to Lesson 
我看看，这条一小包一小包的是手帕纸，还有抽纸，卷筒纸，厨房用纸，这么多啊？
wǒ kànkan ，zhè tiáo yī xiǎo bāo yī xiǎo bāo de shì shǒupàzhǐ ，hái yǒu chōuzhǐ ，juǎntǒngzhǐ ，chúfángyòngzhǐ ，zhème duō ā ？
Let me see. These are individually packaged handkerchiefs. There's also boxes of tissues, rolls of paper and paper towels. So much?
Go to Lesson 
我们小时候条件差，玩具就这些，不分男女的。有的人连玩具都没有。只能做游戏，不是跳橡皮筋，就是丢手帕。
wǒmen xiǎoshíhou tiáojiàn chà ，wánjù jiù zhèxiē ，bùfēn nánnǚ de 。yǒude rén lián wánjù dōu méiyǒu 。zhǐnéng zuò yóuxì ，bùshì tiào xiàngpíjīn ，jiùshì diū shǒupà 。
When we were little we didn't have much. Those were the toys we had, so we didn't differentiate between boys' and girls' toys. Some people didn't even have any toys. They could just play games; either the ``big rubber band" or ``drop the handkerchief."
Go to Lesson