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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

身手

shēnshǒu

skill

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

skill

02

talent

03

agility

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 身手 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 身手 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

身手矫健的棕狐狸跃过懒洋洋的狗。shēn shǒu jiǎo jiàn de zōng hú lí yuè guò lǎn yáng yáng de gǒu。

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

身手矫健的棕狐狸跃过懒洋洋的棕狗。shēn shǒu jiǎo jiàn de zōng hú lí yuè guò lǎn yáng yáng de zōng gǒu。

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.

身手矫健的棕狐狸没有跃过懒洋洋的狗。shēn shǒu jiǎo jiàn de zōng hú lí méi yǒu yuè guò lǎn yáng yáng de gǒu。

The quick brown fox did not jump over the lazy dog.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 身手.

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

Directly before

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.

Directly after

  • 身手矫健3
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 身手

What does 身手 mean in Chinese?

身手 (shēnshǒu) means skill.

How do you pronounce 身手?

身手 is pronounced shēnshǒu.

Is 身手 an HSK word?

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

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