People often say: "If something in your hand no longer feels right, it's better to let it go."
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
放手
to let go one's hold
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to let go one's hold
02
to give up
03
to have a free hand
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 放手 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 放手 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
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COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 放手.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 放手.
Directly before
- 不愿放手1
- 就放手1
- 还是放手1
Directly after
- 放手的2
- 放手不1
- 放手吧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 放手
What does 放手 mean in Chinese?
放手 (fàngshǒu) means to let go one's hold.
How do you pronounce 放手?
放手 is pronounced fàngshǒu.
Is 放手 an HSK word?
放手 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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