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出手

chū shǒu

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

出手 (chū shǒu) means "to dispose of; to spend (money); to undertake a task". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 出手 means

1. to dispose of
2. to spend (money)
3. to undertake a task

The characters in 出手

• 出chūto go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield
• 手shǒuhand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work

Words containing 出手

• 大打出手dà dǎ chū shǒuto come to blows; to start a fight…
• 打出手dǎ chū shǒuto fling back weapons hurled at one by attackers…
• 拿不出手ná bù chū shǒunot presentable; shoddy and too embarrassing to show
• 腾出手téng chū shǒuto get one's hands free (to do sth else)

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