手 (shǒu) means Hand (convenient). Below are 24 of the 186 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
洗 手 间在二楼。
Xǐshǒujiān zài èr lóu.
The toilets are on the second floor.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 洗手间
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
请用肥皂洗 手 。
Qǐng yòng féizào xǐ shǒu.
Please wash your hands with soap.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 肥皂
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From the graded readers
上个星期，我的 手 机丢了。
shànggexīngqī, wǒ de(possessive) shǒujī diū le / liǎo / liào.
Last week I lost my phone.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Losing My Phone
到家以后我才发现 手 机不见了。
dào jiā yǐhòu wǒ cái fāxiàn shǒujī bùjiàn le / liǎo / liào.
It wasn't until I got home that I noticed it was gone.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Losing My Phone
我的 手 机没电了，也没有地图。
wǒ de(possessive) shǒujī méi diàn le / liǎo / liào, yě méiyǒu dìtú.
My phone was dead and I had no map.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Getting Lost
她 手 里拿着四五个很重的袋子。
tā shǒulǐ názhe sì wǔ gè hěn zhòng / chóng de / dì dàizi.
She was holding four or five heavy bags.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Helping a Stranger
轮到我的时候，我的 手 一直在抖。
lún dào wǒ de(possessive) shíhou, wǒ de(possessive) shǒu yìzhí zài dǒu.
When my turn came, my hands wouldn't stop shaking.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
我的 手 机没有响，我七点五十才醒。
wǒ de(possessive) shǒujī méiyǒu xiǎng, wǒ qī diǎn wǔshí cái xǐng.
My phone didn't go off and I didn't wake until ten to eight.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Late for Work
她把 手 机交给了图书馆的工作人员。
tā bǎshǒu jī jiāogěi le / liǎo / liào túshūguǎn de / dì gōngzuò rényuán.
She'd handed it in to the library staff.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Losing My Phone
那天晚上，她一直把照片放在 手 边。
nà / nèi tiān wǎnshang, tā yìzhí bǎ zhàopiàn fàng zài shǒu biān.
That evening she kept the photograph beside her.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph
我的 手 被地上的小石头划破了，很疼。
wǒ de(possessive) shǒu bèi dìshàng de / dì xiǎo shítou huà / huá pò le / liǎo / liào, hěn téng.
My hands were scraped by the small stones on the ground and it hurt.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Learning to Ride a Bike
妈妈把 手 机举起来，让我看他们那边的月亮。
māma bǎshǒu jī jǔ qǐlai, ràng wǒ kàn / kān tāmen nàbian de / dì yuèliàng.
Mum lifted the phone so I could see the moon from their side.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Mid-Autumn Festival
我回过头，看见他站在很远的地方，笑着向我招 手 。
wǒ huí guò tóu, kànjiàn tā zhàn zài hěn yuǎn de / dì dìfang, xiào zhāo / zhaó / zhe / zhù / zhuó xiàng wǒ zhāo shǒu.
I looked back and saw him standing far away, smiling and waving.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Learning to Ride a Bike
From the travel phrasebook
From the grammar library
手 appears in 186 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 手
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 手
How is 手 used in a sentence?
This page shows 186 sentences using 手 (shǒu, "Hand (convenient)"), 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.
Why do some sentences show 手 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 手 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 手?
The dictionary page for 手 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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