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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

举手

jǔshǒu

to raise a hand

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to raise a hand

02

to put up one's hand (as signal)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 举手 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 举手 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

举手齐眉行西人仪礼.jǔ shǒu qí méi xíng xī rén yí lǐ.

No published English translation for this sentence.

老师还没点名,他就主动举手回答问题。lǎo shī hái méi diǎn míng, tā jiù zhǔ dòng jǔ shǒu huí dá wèn tí。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 举手.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 举手.

Directly before

  • 主动举手1

Directly after

  • 举手齐眉1
  • 举手回答1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 举手

What does 举手 mean in Chinese?

举手 (jǔshǒu) means to raise a hand.

How do you pronounce 举手?

举手 is pronounced jǔshǒu.

Is 举手 an HSK word?

举手 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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