人手

• 拼音: rén shǒu
• 汉字拆解: 人 = 人 (person); 手 = 手 (hand — pictograph of a hand with five fingers; extended: a worker)

含义

Manpower; staff; available workers. Refers to the number of people available or needed to carry out work, especially when discussing shortages or allocation.

Common in 人手不足 (understaffed), 人手紧张 (short-handed), 人手短缺 (manpower shortage), 招募人手 (recruit workers). More concrete than 人力 (manpower as an abstract resource) — 人手 counts actual individuals available for a task.

例句

1. 节假日期间客流量激增，餐厅人手严重不足，经理不得不亲自上阵帮忙传菜和招待顾客。
2. 工程项目工期紧迫，施工队决定临时招募额外人手，以确保能够按期完工交付。
3. 农忙季节，农村地区普遍面临人手短缺的困境，许多农户不得不花高价雇请外地务工人员协助收割。

用法指南

语境: business, labour, agriculture, operations

语气: neutral

正确说法

• 目前仓库备货任务量远超预期，现有人手远远不够，仓储主管请求公司紧急调配至少二十名临时工支援。(The current warehouse stocking workload far exceeds expectations, and the existing workforce is nowhere near sufficient; the warehouse supervisor has requested the company to urgently deploy at least twenty temporary workers in support.)
• 春节前夕，快递行业进入年度业务高峰期，各大物流公司纷纷加大人手招募力度，以应对爆发式增长的包裹量。(On the eve of the Spring Festival, the express delivery industry enters its annual peak season; major logistics companies have stepped up manpower recruitment to cope with the explosive surge in parcel volumes.)

错误说法

• 我需要人手帮忙 — use 我需要人手来帮忙 or 我需要有人帮忙; 人手 functions as a noun meaning available workers, not as a general pronoun for a 'person to help'

起源与历史

人 (person) + 手 (hand — the hand as the instrument of labour; extended: a working person)

文化背景

世代: All ages

社会背景: Universal