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Definition(s) for: 拿不出手

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
拿不出手 ná bù chū shǒu - not presentable
- shoddy and too embarrassing to show

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 64,359 33,282

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- to hold
- to seize
- to catch
- to apprehend
- to take
- (used in the same way as 把[ba3]: to mark the following noun as a direct object)
- old variant of 拿[na2]
- variant of 拿[na2]
- no; not so
- (bound form) not; un-
chū- to go out; to come out
- to arise; to occur
- to produce; to yield
- to go beyond; to exceed
- (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result)
- classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
chū- variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)
shǒu- hand
- (formal) to hold
- person engaged in certain types of work
- person skilled in certain types of work
- personal(ly)
- convenient
- classifier for skill
- CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]

Other Words Containing 拿不出手

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo