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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

援手

yuánshǒu

assistance; a helping hand

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

assistance; a helping hand

02

to lend a hand

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 援手 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 援手 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

没有其他人伸出援手。méi yǒu qí tā rén shēn chū yuán shǒu。

Nobody else offered to help.

他向穷人们伸出了援手。tā xiàng qióng rén men shēn chū le yuán shǒu。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 援手.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 援手.

Directly before

  • 了援手1
  • 伸出援手1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 援手

What does 援手 mean in Chinese?

援手 (yuánshǒu) means assistance; a helping hand.

How do you pronounce 援手?

援手 is pronounced yuánshǒu.

Is 援手 an HSK word?

援手 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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