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There are 12 total results for your 人手 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

人手

see styles
rén shǒu
    ren2 shou3
jen shou
 hitode
    ひとで
manpower; staff; human hand
(1) someone else's hands; someone else's possession; (2) hand (worker); aide; (3) labor; labour; work; manpower; effort; (4) help; assistance; (5) (human) hand; human act
a person's hand

人手動


人手动

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rén shǒu dòng
    ren2 shou3 dong4
jen shou tung
manually controlled

人手町

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 hitodemachi
    ひとでまち
(place-name) Hitodemachi

人手不足

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 hitodebusoku
    ひとでぶそく
(noun - becomes adjective with の) labour shortage; labor shortage; shortage of workers; shortage of hands

蜘蛛人手

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 kumohitode
    くもひとで
(1) (kana only) brittle star (any starfish-like echinoderm of the order Ophiuroidea); brittlestar; (2) Ophioplocus japonicus (species of brittlestar)

人手に渡る

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 hitodeniwataru
    ひとでにわたる
(exp,v5r) to fall into another's hands

人手にかかる

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 hitodenikakaru
    ひとでにかかる
(exp,v5r) (1) to be murdered; (2) to be aided by someone else; to be raised by someone else

人手に掛かる

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 hitodenikakaru
    ひとでにかかる
(exp,v5r) (1) to be murdered; (2) to be aided by someone else; to be raised by someone else

人手を増やす

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 hitodeofuyasu
    ひとでをふやす
(exp,v5s) to add to the staff; to increase the staff

Variations:
海星
人手
海盤車

see styles
 hitode; hitode
    ひとで; ヒトデ
(1) (kana only) starfish; sea star; asteroid; any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea; (2) (kana only) northern Pacific seastar (Asterias amurensis)

Variations:
蜘蛛海星
蜘蛛人手

see styles
 kumohitode; kumohitode
    くもひとで; クモヒトデ
(1) (kana only) brittle star (any starfish-like echinoderm of the order Ophiuroidea); brittlestar; (2) Ophioplocus japonicus (species of brittlestar)

Variations:
人手にかかる
人手に掛かる

see styles
 hitodenikakaru
    ひとでにかかる
(exp,v5r) (1) to be murdered; (exp,v5r) (2) to be aided by someone else; to be raised by someone else

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 12 results for "人手" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
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Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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