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选手

xuǎn shǒu

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 選手

选手 (xuǎn shǒu) means "athlete". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 选手 means

1. athlete
2. contestant

The characters in 选手

• 选xuǎnto choose; to pick; to select
• 手shǒuhand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work

Example sentences

• 游泳选手们冻僵了。
  Yóuyǒng xuǎnshǒu men dòngjiāng le.
  The swimmers were numb with cold.
• 每位选手都尽力了。
  Every player did his best.
• 汤姆不是一个好选手。
  Tom isn't a great player.
• 他是个很棒的网球选手。
  He's an excellent tennis player.
• 他想成为一名网球选手。
  He wants to be a tennis player.
• 他是一位著名的棒球选手。
  Tā shì yī wèi zhùmíng de bàngqiú xuǎnshǒu.
  He is a famous baseball player.

Words containing 选手

• 种子选手zhǒng zi xuǎn shǒuseeded player
• 拳击选手quán jī xuǎn shǒuboxer

Where 选手 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xuǎn–yā (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 xuǎn shǒu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.