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Chinese Vocabulary

动手

to get to work, set about it

动手
dòngshǒu4th tone
Pinyin
dòngshǒu
Strokes
10
In episodes
1

Stroke order for 动手

动手 is written with 10 strokes (: 6, : 4). The animation replays automatically.

Usage

他开始自己动手做墨西哥 — and the last two words of the episode.

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动手 appears in 1 Fluentide podcast episode at natural native speed. Each sentence plays at the easiest difficulty it exists in — switch it to hear the same moment at your level, with full pinyin and English throughout.

你会一直等下去,还是自己动手

Do you keep waiting, or do you get to work yourself?

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