HanTrace

手头

shǒutóu

“On hand” in Chinese is 手头 (shǒutóu).

Meaning

  • on hand
  • at hand
  • one's financial situation

Example

我们没有足够的时间来完成手头的工作。

We didn't have enough time to finish what we were doing.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

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