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下手

下手

Chinese

Noun

下手

  1. right-hand seat; right-hand side; seat of lower priority or less honour
  2. player whose turn comes next
  3. (colloquial) assistant; aide
    需要旁邊下手 [MSC, trad.]
    需要旁边下手 [MSC, simp.]
    Wǒ xūyào yǒu rén zài wǒ pángbiān bāng wǒ dǎxiàshǒu. [Pinyin]
    I need someone by my side to help me.
Synonyms
  • (player): 下家
Derived terms

Pronunciation 2

  1. (literary) to do; to take action; to go about something
    知道如何下手 [MSC, trad. and simp.]
    Wǒ bù zhīdào rúhé xiàshǒu. [Pinyin]
    I don't know how to go about it.
  2. to commit a crime
Derived terms
  • 先下手為強先下手为强

Japanese

Kanji in this term
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Adjectival noun

下手 (-na inflection, hiragana へた, romaji heta)

  1. unskilled, bad at, poor at, weak at, incompetent

Antonyms

Inflection

Noun

下手 (hiragana へた, romaji heta)

  1. lack of skill

下手 (hiragana したて, romaji shitate)

  1. the lower part