Hé biéren wòshǒu de shíhou, yídìng yào yǒu yǎnshén jiēchù.
When you shake hands with someone, always make eye contact.
Sentence #385413 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted
How 握手 is built
Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.
握wòto hold; to grasp
扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
屋building · wūSound part
扌 hints at the meaning (hand); 屋 (wū) hints at the sound. Compare it with wò.
手shǒuhand
手 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.
Memory aidDrawn from a hand with its fingers spread. On the left of a character it is written 扌.
How to write 握手
握 12 strokes · 手 4 strokes
Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.
Stroke order chart for 握手 (wòshǒu). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
握手 (wòshǒu) means “to shake hands”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it wòshǒu: wò with a 4th tone, then shǒu with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 握手 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type woshou with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 握手 from the suggestions. Typing woshou into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
握手 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.
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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.
握wò4th tone, falling
手shǒu3rd tone, dipping
