She is holding flowers in her hand.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
手里
in hand
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
in hand
02
(a situation is) in sb's hands
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 手里 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 手里 appears in 25 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He took a pencil in his hand.
He had a book in his hand.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 手里.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 手里.
Directly before
- 她手里5
- 你手里4
- 的手里4
- 他手里3
- 在手里2
Directly after
- 手里拿9
- 手里的3
- 手里有2
- 手里握2
- 手里正拿着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 手里
What does 手里 mean in Chinese?
手里 (shǒulǐ) means in hand.
How do you pronounce 手里?
手里 is pronounced shǒulǐ.
Is 手里 an HSK word?
手里 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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