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Definition(s) for: 拿手好戏

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
拿手好戏 ná shǒu hǎo xì - the role an actor plays best (idiom)
- (fig.) one's specialty
- one's forte

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
- - 19,917 51,324 47,629

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]
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]
hǎo- good
- appropriate; proper
- all right!
- (before a verb) easy to
- (before a verb) good to
- (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so
- (verb complement indicating completion)
- (of two people) close; on intimate terms
- (after a personal pronoun) hello
hào- to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
- variant of 戲|戏[xi4]
- trick
- drama
- play
- show
- CL:齣|出[chu1],場|场[chang3],臺|台[tai2]

Other Words Containing 拿手好戏

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
拿手好戏 - - 19,917 51,324 47,629