He's my underling.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
手下
under one's control or administration
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
under one's control or administration
02
subordinates
03
(money etc) on hand
04
sb's financial means
05
when taking action
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 手下 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 手下 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I work under her.
I would rather quit than work under him.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 手下.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 手下.
Directly before
- 他手下1
- 的手下1
- 她手下1
- 纵容手下1
Directly after
- 手下干1
- 手下工作1
- 手下横行不法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 手下
What does 手下 mean in Chinese?
手下 (shǒuxià) means under one's control or administration.
How do you pronounce 手下?
手下 is pronounced shǒuxià.
Is 手下 an HSK word?
手下 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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