手

HSK 2#190 by frequencyradical 手

shǒu["n","q"]

hand; person engaged in certain types of work; person skilled in certain types of work; personal(ly); convenient; classifier for skill; (formal) to hold

Measure words: 双, 只

Examples

住手。

Stop that!

我拍手。

I clapped my hands.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.