放手

Chinese

		to release; to free; to let go to release; to free; to let go; to put; to place; to let out	hand; convenient; ‑er
simp. and trad. (放手)		放	手

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fàngshǒu

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄤˋ ㄕㄡˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fong³ sau²
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): piong-sú

(Hailu, HRS): biong^ˇ shiu^ˊ
Jin (Wiktionary): fon³ sou²
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): bang⁴ ciu³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pàng-chhiú
Wu (Suzhou, Wugniu): ⁵faon ³seu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fàngshǒu
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄤˋ ㄕㄡˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fàngshǒu
  - Wade–Giles: fang⁴-shou³
  - Yale: fàng-shǒu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fanqshoou
  - Palladius: фаншоу (fanšou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɑŋ⁵¹ ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: fong³ sau²
  - Yale: fong sáu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fong³ sau²
  - Guangdong Romanization: fong³ seo²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɔːŋ³³ sɐu̯³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: piong-sú
  - Hakka Romanization System: biong su^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: biong⁴ su³
  - Sinological IPA: /pi̯oŋ⁵⁵ su³¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: biong^ˇ shiu^ˊ
  - Sinological IPA: /pioŋ¹¹ ʃiu²⁴/
Jin
- (Taiyuan)⁺
  - Wiktionary: fon³ sou²
  - Sinological IPA (old-style): /fɒ̃⁴⁵ səu⁵³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian, Jiangkou, Nanri)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: bang⁴ ciu³ [Phonetic: bang¹ niu³]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ba̍ng-chiû
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /paŋ⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ^(t͡sʰ-)niu⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou, Youyang, Fengting)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: bang⁴ ciu³ [Phonetic: bang¹ niu³]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /paŋ⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ^(t͡sʰ-)niu³³²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pàng-chhiú
  - Tâi-lô: pàng-tshiú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: parngchiuo
  - IPA (Xiamen): /paŋ²¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰiu⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /paŋ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ t͡sʰiu⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /paŋ²¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰiu⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /paŋ¹¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰiu⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /paŋ²¹⁻⁴¹ t͡sʰiu⁴¹/
Wu
- (Northern: Suzhou)
  - Wugniu: ⁵faon ³seu
  - MiniDict: faon^去 seu^上
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /fɑ̃⁵¹ søy⁵¹/

Verb

放手

to let go (of one's hold); to lose one's grip
(figurative) to give up; to abandon
(figurative) to give free rein; to hand over control

Synonyms

(to let go): 撒手 (sāshǒu), 鬆手／松手 (sōngshǒu), (Hokkien) 手冗; (Xiang) 丟手／丢手 (diūshǒu)
(to give free rein): 罷休／罢休 (bàxiū)

Derived terms

得放手時須放手 / 得放手时须放手
放手一搏 (fàngshǒuyībó)

References

李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “1928 撒手（放开手，松手）”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 476.