手机

Character by character

• 手shǒu4 strokesHSK 1hand
• 机jī6 strokesHSK 1 traditional 機desk; machine; moment

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 我没有手机了。

  Wǒ méi yǒu shǒu jī le

  I don't have a cellphone anymore.

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• 给我你的手机。

  Gěi wǒ nǐ de shǒu jī

  Give me your phone.

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• 你有没有手机？

  Nǐ yǒu méi yǒu shǒu jī

  Have you got a mobile phone?

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 手机. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 手shǒuHSK 1

  hand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work; person skilled in certain types of work; personal(ly); convenient; classifier for skill

• 机会jī huìHSK 2

  opportunity; chance; occasion

• 选手xuǎn shǒuHSK 3

  athlete; contestant

• 手术shǒu shùHSK 4

  (surgical) operation; surgery

• 飞机fēi jīHSK 1

  airplane

• 机构jī gòuHSK 4

  mechanism; structure; organization; agency; institution

• 对手duì shǒuHSK 3

  opponent; rival; competitor; (well-matched) adversary; match

• 手里shǒu lǐHSK 4

  in hand; (a situation is) in sb's hands

• 司机sī jīHSK 2

  chauffeur; driver

• 手段shǒu duànHSK 5

  method; means (of doing sth); strategy; trick

• 机场jī chǎngHSK 1

  airport; airfield; (slang) service provider for Shadowsocks or similar software for circumventing Internet censorship

• 分手fēn shǒuHSK 4

  to part company; to split up; to break up

• 机器jī qìHSK 3

  machine

• 危机wēi jīHSK 6

  crisis

• 歌手gē shǒuHSK 3

  singer

• 手指shǒu zhǐHSK 3

  finger

• 动手dòng shǒuHSK 5

  to set about (a task); to hit; to punch; to touch

• 相机xiàng jīHSK 2

  camera (abbr. for 照相机); at the opportune moment; as the circumstances allow

• 时机shí jīHSK 5

  opportunity; opportune moment

• 计算机jì suàn jīHSK 2

  computer; (Tw) calculator

• 机械jī xièHSK 6

  machine; machinery; mechanical; (old) cunning; scheming

• 双手shuāng shǒuHSK 5

  both hands

• 杀手shā shǒuHSK 7

  killer; murderer; hit man; (sports) formidable player

• 高手gāo shǒuHSK 6

  expert; past master; dab hand