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打下手

dǎ xià shǒu

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 3-character word

打下手 (dǎ xià shǒu) means "to act in a supporting role; fig. to play second fiddle". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 打下手 means

1. to act in a supporting role
2. fig. to play second fiddle

The characters in 打下手

• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 下xiàdown; downwards; below
• 手shǒuhand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work

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