"Skillful" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 熟练 | shú liàn | practiced / proficient / skilled / skillful |   |
| 纯熟 | chún shú | skillful / proficient | |
| 熟习 | shú xí | to understand profoundly / well-versed / skillful / practiced / to have the knack | |
| 巧 |  qiǎo | opportunely / coincidentally / as it happens / skillful / timely | |
| 秀才 | xiù cai | a person who has passed the county level imperial exam (historical) / scholar / skillful writer / fine talent | |
| 轻灵 | qīng líng | quick and skillful / agile | |
| 精于 | jīng yú | skillful in / proficient in / adept at | |
| 巧手 | qiǎo shǒu | skillful hands / dexterous / a dab hand | |
| 手巧 | shǒu qiǎo | to be skillful with one's hands / to be manually adroit | |
| 仁心仁术 | rén xīn rén shù | benevolent heart and skillful execution (idiom, from Mencius) / charitable in thought and deed | |
| 一回生，二回熟 | yī huí shēng , èr huí shú | lit. at first raw, later ripe (idiom) / unfamiliar at first but you get used to it / strangers at first meeting, but soon friends / awkward at first but becoming skillful later / an acquired taste | |
| 做手 | zuò shǒu | to put one's hand to sth / to set about / skillful hands / worker / writer | |
| 妙笔生花 | miào bǐ shēng huā | gifted or skillful writing | |
| 神乎其技 | shén hū qí jì | (idiom) brilliant / extremely skillful / virtuosic | |
| 飞针走线 | fēi zhēn zǒu xiàn | flying needle and running seam (idiom) / skillful needlework | |
| 手筋 | shǒu jīn | flexor tendon (coll.) / tesuji (a skillful move in the game of Go) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 手筋 / "tesuji") | |
| 成精 | chéng jīng | (of an animal or tree etc) to become a spirit or goblin / (fig.) to be amazingly skillful, smart or evil etc | |
