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[edit] Translingual

Stroke order
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Stroke order
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[edit] Alternative forms

  • (when used as a left Chinese radical)

[edit] Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – hand and fingers. The top stroke is the bent over middle finger, while the horizontal strokes are each two fingers. Compare , , .

Note that unlike the other hand/claw characters, 手 has consistently had five fingers: a mammalian/human hand, as opposed to the three digits often found in the others.

Compare also  (foot), derived from a footprint, originally composed of 3 toes and a sole.

手 手 手 手
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

[edit] Han character

(radical 64 +0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 手 (Q), four-corner 20500)

  1. hand

[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 416, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11768
  • Dae Jaweon: page 762, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1824, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+624B

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(Yale sau2)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

(hiragana , romaji te)

  1. a hand
  2. a handle
  3. a paw; a foreleg
  4. (board games) a move; a play

[edit] Kanji

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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[edit] Hanja


Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: su, McCune-Reischauer: su, Yale: swu)
  • Name (hangeul): ()

[edit] Mandarin

simpl. and trad.

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin shǒu (shou3), Wade-Giles shou3)

[edit] Noun

(traditional and simplified, Pinyin shǒu)

  1. hand

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

(*shiǒu)


[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(trì, thủ)

  1. hand
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