Please clap.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
拍手
to clap one's hands
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to clap one's hands
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 拍手 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 拍手 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I clapped my hands.
I am not applauding them.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 拍手.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 拍手.
Directly before
- 都拍手1
- 我拍手1
- 不拍手1
- 请拍手1
Directly after
- 拍手他们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 拍手
What does 拍手 mean in Chinese?
拍手 (pāishǒu) means to clap one's hands.
How do you pronounce 拍手?
拍手 is pronounced pāishǒu.
Is 拍手 an HSK word?
拍手 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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