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得手

dé shǒu

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

得手 (dé shǒu) means "to go smoothly; to come off; to succeed". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 得手 means

1. to go smoothly; to come off; to succeed

The characters in 得手

• 得destructural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to…
• 手shǒuhand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work

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