Carefully cut it while holding it in your hands.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
到手
to take possession of
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to take possession of
02
to get hold of
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 到手 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 到手 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
The contract is in the bag, so let's go out and celebrate.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 到手.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 到手.
Directly before
- 已经到手1
- 别切到手1
- 心切到手1
- 东西到手1
Directly after
- 到手了3
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 到手
What does 到手 mean in Chinese?
到手 (dàoshǒu) means to take possession of.
How do you pronounce 到手?
到手 is pronounced dàoshǒu.
Is 到手 an HSK word?
到手 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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