握手
wò shǒu
Pinyin
Definition
握手
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- to shake hands
Character Decomposition
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
握手是一种友好的表示。
Shaking hands is an expression of friendship.
我觉得我们第一个学到的词是“握手”。
I think the first word that we studied was “to shake hands”.
什么呀!很多人并不是干坏事才得艾滋的。其实除了性传播、母婴传播和血液传播,其他接触都是安全的,像拥抱,握手,交谈都不用担心。
Nonsense! Lots of people who have done nothing wrong still get AIDS. Actually, other than being spread through sexual contact, or from a mother to child, or through blood, all other contact is safe. There's no need to worry about hugging, holding hands or having a conversation.
在中国,握手就可以了。
In China, you can just shake hands.
敬个礼呀,握握手,
Let’s salute and then shake hands,