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得手

dé shǒu
HSK 3.0 Level 7 Adjective Uncommon

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Usage notes

Collocations

得手 is most often used in the structure (做某事)很得手, meaning 'to do something smoothly/successfully', often in professional or technical contexts.

Example Sentences

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他用这个工具很 得手 。
He finds this tool very handy.

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Child Words of 得手

得
dé

to obtain

得
de

structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc

得
děi

to have to

手
shǒu

hand