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门把手
mén bǎ shǒu



门把手
handle


Definitions

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门把手
     1. Simplified form of Created page with "==Chinese== 門把手"
     2. Simplified form of 門把手
Created page with "==Chinese== 門把手"
門把手ménbǎshǒu
     1. n. doorknob; door handle
English > Chinese
handle
     1. 把手
     2. 可乘之机
     3. 头衔
     4. 睹注金额
     5.
     6. 支使
     7. 讨论
     8. 处理经营
     9. 操作
     10. 处理
     11.
     12. 把柄
     13. 把子
     14. 辫子
     15.
     16. 动手
     17. 对待
Components
     1. Simplified form of 門
mén
     1. gate; door; entrance; opening; portal
     2. valve; switch
     3. way of doing something; knack
           門路 - way of doing something
     4. family
     5. school; sect; school of thought; tradition
           佛門 - Buddhism
           門生 - disciple of a particular tradition
     6. class; category
     7. (taxonomy) phylum; division
     8. (logic, electronics) logic gate
           這 門 生意 不好 做。 - It's a tough business.
           你 這 一 門 心思,誰 猜-得 到? - Who could have guessed all that in your mind?
           說 成 一 門 親事 - to successfully make a match
     9. -gate (a suffix combined with keywords to form the names of scandals)
     10. (anatomy) hilum of an organ
bǎ, bà, bǎi
     1. to hold; to grasp; to take
           把握 - to grasp; to control; to master
           媽媽ma 手把手 教 我 寫字。 (Māma shǒubǎshǒu jiào wǒ xiězì.) - My mom held my hand and taught me to write.
     2. to control; to dominate
           把控 (bǎkòng) - to control
     3. to guard; to have control over
           把守 (bǎshǒu) - to guard; to defend
           把門 - to guard a door or gate
     4. (colloquial) to be close; to be near
     5. to hold a baby while it relieves itself
           把尿 (bǎniào) - to hold a baby while it urinates
     6. (TCM) to feel (for the pulse)
           我 替 施主 把 把脈。 (Wǒ tì shīzhǔ bǎ bǎmài.) - Let me feel the pulse for you.
     7. A light verb or preposition placed before the object of a sentence to allow it to be placed before the verb, giving greater flexibility in complex sentence construction.
           他 把 刀 放 在 桌子zi 上。 (Tā bǎ dāo fàng zài zhuōzi shàng.) - He put the knife on the table.
     8. Used before a “subject + verb + complement” structure; to cause to; to make
           真的 把 我 氣死 了! (Zhēnde bǎ wǒ qìsǐ le!) - It really made me so mad!
     9. bundle; bunch
           火把 (huǒbǎ) - torch (stick with a flame on one end)
     10. handle; knob; grip (a part of an object which is held in the hand)
           車把 (chēbǎ) - handlebar (of a bicycle)
           刀把bà (dāobà) - knife handle; hilt
     11. stem (of a flower, leaf, fruit, etc.)
           葉把bà兒r (yèbàr) - stem of a leaf
           三 把 刀 (sān bǎ dāo) - three knives
           四 把 鉸gaau3剪 - four pairs of scissors
           一 把 刀囝 (siŏh bā dŏ̤-giāng, ref=(RQ:Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects, 1677) - a pocketknife, MD)
           兩 把 掃把 (liǎng bǎ sǎobǎ) - two brooms
           一 把 米 (yī bǎ mǐ) - a handful of rice
           一 把 韭菜 (yī bǎ jiǔcài) - a bunch of garlic chives
           點 一 把 火 - to light a fire
           加 把 勁兒r! (Jiā bǎ jìnr!) - Make an extra effort!
           (zh-x, 一 把 年紀)
           幫 你 一 把 (bāng nǐ yī bǎ) - to give you a helping hand
           過癮\過 把 過癮\癮 - to satisfy a craving
           打 把 麻將 - to play mahjong
           玩 兩 把 牌 - to play card games
           打 幾 把 遊戲 - to play video games
           汏浴\汏 把 汏浴\浴 (3da+2po+5hhioq, ref=(RQ:Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects, 1675) - to bathe, SH)
     12. (Xiamen, &, Quanzhou Hokkien)
           一 把 跤踏車 (chi̍t pé kha-ta̍h-chhia) - a bicycle, MN, ref=(RQ:Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects, 1677)
     13. Placed after numerals or classifiers to express uncertainty; approximately
           個 把 月 - approximately a month
           十 把 日 (sĕk bā nĭk, ref=(RQ:Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects, 1677) - approximately ten days, MD)
           隻 把 人 (ciă bǎ nêng, ref=(RQ:Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects, 1676) - several people, MB)
     14. (archaic or dialectal) to give
           把 壓歲錢 (ba3 'ngat6 sui4 qien2) - to give money (to children) during the Chinese New Year, G
           把 本 書 你 (ba3 ben3 xy1 nyi3, ref=(RQ:Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects, 1675) - to give you a book, X)
           把 我 一 本 書 - to give me a book, M-YZ, ref=(RQ:Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects, 1672)
     15. =====Usage notes=====
     16. (zh-wp, zh:把字句, en:bǎ construction)
     17. (cat, cmn, Beginning Mandarin, Intermediate Mandarin)
shǒu
     1. hand
     2. expert; master
           高手 - master
     3. -ist; -er
           歌手 - singer
     4. convenient; handy; portable
           手機 - mobile phone
           手冊 - handbook
     5. handwritten
     6. (Min Nan) luck in gambling
     7. (Mainland China Hokkien)
     8. (Taiwanese Hokkien) hidden part (general)
     9. (finance)
     10. usage. In many varieties of Chinese south of the Yangtze River, 手 refers to the arm and hand collectively.
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mén bǎ shǒu




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