举手

举手 jǔshǒu in a sentence

Raise one's hand

Full dictionary entry 2 sentences

举手 (jǔshǒu) means Raise one's hand. Below are 2 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

有问题请 举手 。

Yǒu wèntí qǐng jǔ shǒu.

Please raise your hand if you have a question.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 举

同学们争先恐后地 举手 发言。

Tóngxuémen zhēng xiān kǒng hòu de jǔshǒu fāyán.

The students all raced to raise their hands and speak.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 争先恐后

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This page shows 2 sentences using 举手 (jǔshǒu, "Raise one's hand"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

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