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You can remember the meaning of 下手 with this easy mnemonic:

Mandy was all ready to have her ears pierced but her friend was slow to start the process. The friend carefully grabbed Mandy's earlobe from under (下) with one hand (手) and held the ear-piercing gun with the other.

Using mnemonics to remember the meaning of Chinese characters like can have an enormous impact on how long to learn Mandarin it takes.

• 手
• 下

• 手枪
• 之下
• 手段
• 下次
• 放手
• 陛下
• 双手
• 亲手
• 下去
• 接手
• 手术
• 楼下
• 跪下
• 私下
• 底下
• 以下

The reading of 下手 is xià shǒu.

You can remember how to say 下手 with this useful mnemonic:

Do it! Just press it and pierce my ear already! The wait was making Mandy anxious (xià) as she shouted (shǒu) to her friend.

Using mnemonics to remember the reading of Chinese vocabulary like has a huge impact on how long to learn Mandarin it takes.

Learning vocabulary like to start and the rest of the Mandarin written language can take as little as one year, or as long as a lifetime. Our Mandarin language learners find that using helpful mnemonics can aid retention of Chinese Mandarin vocabulary and characters.

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