手足

Mandarin · pinyin shǒu zú

Meanings

  1. hands and feet
  2. (fig.) brothers
  3. retinue, henchmen, accomplices
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手
shǒu · hand
足
zú · foot; attain, satisfy, enough; Kangxi radical 156
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3–2 · shou3 zu2

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sau2 zuk1

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sau2 zuk1

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noun

  1. (literally) hands and feet
  2. (figurative, literary) parts of the same body; people who are inseparable or intimately connected
  3. (figurative) brothers; siblings
  4. (figurative) accomplices; retinue; henchmen
  5. (neologism, Hong Kong politics) fellow Hong Kong protestors

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