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手艺

shǒu yì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 手藝

手艺 (shǒu yì) means "craftmanship; workmanship; handicraft". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 手艺 means

1. craftmanship
2. workmanship
3. handicraft
4. trade

The characters in 手艺

• 手shǒuhand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work
• 艺yìskill; art

Example sentences

• 我强烈推荐任何想学习一门手艺的人都去读这本书。
  I greatly recommend reading it to anybody thinking of learning a craft.

Sounds the same

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

• 首邑local capital; regional capital

Where 手艺 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shí–shū (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shǒu yì correctly.
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