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首饰

shǒu shì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 首飾

首饰 (shǒu shì) means "jewelry; head ornament". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 首饰 means

1. jewelry
2. head ornament

The characters in 首饰

• 首shǒuhead; chief; first (occasion, thing etc)
• 饰shìdecoration; ornament; to decorate

Example sentences

• 玛丽通常不戴首饰。
  Mǎlì tōngcháng bù dài shǒushì.
  Mary doesn't usually wear jewelry.
• 先生小姐，你们买点什么首饰？
  Xiānsheng xiǎojie, nǐmen mǎi diǎn shénme shǒushì?
  Sir and Miss, what type of jewellery are you looking to buy?
• 先生小姐，你们买点什幺首饰？
  Sir and Miss, what type of jewellery are you looking to buy?

Sounds the same

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

• 手势gesture; sign; signal
• 手式gesture; sign; signal
• 守势defensive position; guard

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shǒu shì correctly.
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