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失手

shī shǒu

2-character word

What 失手 means

1. a slip
2. miscalculation
3. unwise move
4. accidentally
5. by mistake
6. to lose control
7. to be defeated

The characters in 失手

• 失shīto lose; to miss; to fail
• 手shǒuhand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work

Example sentences

• 汤姆从不失手。
  Tom never strikes out.

Words containing 失手

• 人有失手，马有失蹄rén yǒu shī shǒu , mǎ yǒu shī tílit. just as humans make mistakes, so can a horse stumble (idiom)…

Sounds the same

Read shī shǒu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 失守(military) (of a city etc) to fall into enemy hands; (fig.) to take a turn for the worse

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