My elbow still hurts.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
手肘
elbow
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
elbow
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 手肘 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 手肘 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Don't put your elbows on the table.
Keep your elbows off the table.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 手肘.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 手肘.
Directly before
- 的手肘3
Directly after
- 手肘放在2
- 手肘还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 手肘
What does 手肘 mean in Chinese?
手肘 (shǒuzhǒu) means elbow.
How do you pronounce 手肘?
手肘 is pronounced shǒuzhǒu.
Is 手肘 an HSK word?
手肘 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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