得 dé
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 彳 — to step with the left foot
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
得手
déshǒu
to succeed; to get one's way
Characters in this word
手 shǒu
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 手 — hand
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 嫌疑人刚刚得手，就被便衣警察当场控制。 Xiányírén gānggāng déshǒu, jiù bèi biànyī jǐngchá dāngchǎng kòngzhì. The suspect had only just succeeded when plain-clothes police officers restrained him at the scene.
- 他计划了很久，这次终于得手了。 Tā jìhuà le hěn jiǔ, zhè cì zhōngyú déshǒu le. He had planned for a long time and finally succeeded this time.
- 小猫扑了几次，终于得手，抓到了那只蝴蝶。 Xiǎo māo pū le jǐ cì, zhōngyú déshǒu, zhuādào le nà zhī húdié. The kitten pounced several times and finally succeeded in catching the butterfly.
Related words
- 得到 dédào to get, to obtain
- 记得 jìde to remember
- 觉得 juéde to think, to feel
- 得 dé to get; to receive
- 得出 déchū to reach a conclusion
- 得 de so; to the extent (after a verb)
- 懂得 dǒngde to understand; to know about
- 取得 qǔdé to achieve; to obtain
- 不得不 bùdébù to have to
- 得分 défēn to score points
- 认得 rènde to recognize
- 显得 xiǎnde to seem; to look