比手划脚 (比手劃腳)
bǐ shǒu huà jiǎo
Pinyin

Definition

比手划脚 (比手劃腳)
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bǐ shǒu huà jiǎo
  1. to gesticulate
  2. to make lively gestures (while talking)
  3. also written 比手畫腳|比手画脚

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

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
比
Bǐ
  1. 1 Belgium
  2. 2 Belgian
  3. 3 abbr. for 比利時|比利时[Bǐ lì shí]
比较
bǐ jiào
  1. 1 to compare
  2. 2 to contrast
  3. 3 comparatively
  4. 4 relatively
  5. 5 quite
  6. 6 comparison
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

啊哟，语言问题呀！跟外国人打交道，比手划脚，吃力死了！没想到你的中文比我还好！
āyō ，yǔyán wèntí yā ！gēn wàiguórén dǎ jiāodào ，bǐshǒuhuàjiǎo ，chīlì sǐ le ！méixiǎngdào nǐ de Zhōngwén bǐ wǒ hái hǎo ！
Oh, the language problem! Dealing with foreigners and having to use gestures to communicate is so exhausting. I'd never have thought your Chinese would be better than mine!
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