第 dì
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- ⺮ — bamboo
- Made of
- ⺮ bamboo 弟 young brother, junior
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
第一手
dìyīshǒu
first-hand
Characters in this word
一 yī
- Strokes
- 1
- Radical
- 一 — one
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
手 shǒu
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 手 — hand
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 要了解真实情况，最好去现场拿第一手资料。 Yào liǎojiě zhēnshí qíngkuàng, zuì hǎo qù xiànchǎng ná dìyīshǒu zīliào. To understand the real situation, it is best to go to the scene and get first-hand information.
- 这是他亲眼看到的，所以是第一手消息。 Zhè shì tā qīnyǎn kàndào de, suǒyǐ shì dìyīshǒu xiāoxi. He saw this with his own eyes, so it is first-hand news.
- 他刚从那里回来，有很多第一手的故事可以讲。 Tā gāng cóng nàlǐ huílái, yǒu hěn duō dìyīshǒu de gùshi kěyǐ jiǎng. He has just come back from there and has plenty of first-hand stories to tell.
Related words
- 第 dì ordinal prefix (first, second…)
- 一 yī one
- 一半 yíbàn half
- 一会儿 yíhuìr a moment, a little while
- 一块儿 yíkuàir together
- 一下儿 yíxiàr a bit, briefly (after a verb)
- 一样 yíyàng the same, alike
- 一边 yìbiān one side; while (doing two things at once)
- 一点儿 yìdiǎnr a little, a bit
- 一起 yìqǐ together
- 一些 yìxiē some, a few
- 不一定 bùyídìng not necessarily