手势 (shǒushì) means Gesture (hand signal - sign). Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他做了一个停止的 手势 。
Tā zuò le yí ge tíngzhǐ de shǒushì.
He made a gesture to stop.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 手势
不同国家的 手势 含义可能不同。
Bùtóng guójiā de shǒushì hányì kěnéng bùtóng.
Gestures may mean different things in different countries.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 手势
老师用 手势 示意大家安静。
Lǎoshī yòng shǒushì shìyì dàjiā ānjìng.
The teacher gestured for everyone to be quiet.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 示意
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Questions about 手势
How is 手势 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 手势 (shǒushì, "Gesture (hand signal - sign)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 手势 an HSK word?
Yes — 手势 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 手势?
The dictionary page for 手势 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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