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手指

shǒu zhǐ

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Measure word 个、只

手指 (shǒu zhǐ) means "finger". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 手指 means

1. finger

The characters in 手指

• 手shǒuhand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work
• 指zhǐfinger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to

Example sentences

• 不能用手指人。
  Don't point at others.
• 汤姆切到了手指。
  Tom cut his finger.
• 我刚刚切到手指了。
  I just cut my finger.
• 我的手指没有感觉。
  I had no feeling in my fingers.
• 我的手指头有一根刺。
  Wǒ de shǒuzhǐtou yǒu yī gēn cì.
  I have a thorn in my finger.
• 用水冲洗灼伤的手指。
  Yòng shuǐ chōngxǐ zhuóshāng de shǒuzhǐ.
  Cool the burned finger in running water.

Words starting with 手指

• 手指头shǒu zhǐ toufingertip; finger

Words containing 手指

• USB手指U S B shǒu zhǐUSB flash drive

Sounds the same

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

• 手纸toilet paper

Where 手指 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Hands, Surgery & Procedures (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shǒu zhǐ correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.