拿手 náshǒu▶ Bueno

Stroke order

拿手 is written in 14 strokes across 2 characters.

• 拿 — 10 strokes
• 手 — 4 strokes

Senses

1. expert in
2. good at

Related words

• 凶手Asesino
• 动手Bricolaje
• 助手asistente
• 手势gesto
• 手法técnica
• 手艺oficio; artesanía

拿手 is pronounced náshǒu and means “Bueno”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 拿手 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.