掌

Translingual

Han character

掌 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 火月口手 (FBRQ), four-corner 9050₂, composition ⿱尚手)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 437, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12248
• Dae Jaweon: page 786, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1889, character 2
• Unihan data for U+638C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		掌

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 掌
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (尚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
當	*taːŋ, *taːŋs
襠	*taːŋ
鐺	*taːŋ, *sʰraːŋ
簹	*taːŋ
璫	*taːŋ
檔	*taːŋ, *taːŋs
儅	*taːŋ, *taːŋs
蟷	*taːŋ
擋	*taːŋʔ, *taːŋs
黨	*taːŋʔ, *tʰaːŋʔ
讜	*taːŋʔ
欓	*taːŋʔ
譡	*taːŋs
闣	*taːŋs
瓽	*taːŋs
鏜	*tʰaːŋ
闛	*tʰaːŋ, *daːŋ
鼞	*tʰaːŋ
曭	*tʰaːŋʔ
儻	*tʰaːŋʔ, *tʰaːŋs
戃	*tʰaːŋʔ
矘	*tʰaːŋʔ
爣	*tʰaːŋʔ
攩	*hl'aːŋʔ, *ɦʷlaːŋʔ, *ɦʷlaːŋs
淌	*tʰaːŋʔ
倘	*tʰaːŋʔ
躺	*tʰaːŋʔ
趟	*tʰaːŋs, *rtaːŋ, *rtaːŋs
堂	*daːŋ
坣	*daːŋ
棠	*daːŋ
糛	*daːŋ
螳	*daːŋ
隚	*daːŋ
橖	*daːŋ
掌	*tjaŋʔ
廠	*tʰjaŋʔ, *tʰjaŋs
敞	*tʰjaŋʔ
僘	*tʰjaŋʔ
氅	*tʰjaŋʔ
常	*djaŋ
嘗	*djaŋ
裳	*djaŋ
徜	*djaŋ
尚	*djaŋ, *djaŋs
甞	*djaŋ
鋿	*djaŋ
嫦	*djaŋ
償	*djaŋ, *djaŋs
賞	*hjaŋʔ
瞠	*rtʰaːŋ
撐	*rtʰaːŋ
樘	*rtʰaːŋ
橕	*rtʰaːŋ
牚	*rtʰaːŋs
埫	*tʰoŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjaŋʔ) : phonetic 尚 (OC *djaŋ, *djaŋs) + semantic 手.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 掌

1. palm of hand
2. sole of foot
3. shoe sole or heel
4. horseshoe
5. to slap
6. to hold
7. to control
8. (dialectal Mandarin) to put (seasoning)
9. (Sichuanese) to support; to hold

Descendants

• → Mongolian: зан (zan, “sole”)

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Japanese

Kanji

掌

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kun: てのひら (tenohira, 掌); たなごころ (tanagokoro, 掌); たなそこ (tanasoko, 掌); つかさどる (tsukasadoru, 掌る)

Compounds

• 掌握
• 掌鞅
• 掌管
• 掌故
• 掌中
• 掌典

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
掌
てのひら Grade: S
kun'yomi

From 手 (te, “hand”) +‎ の (no, possessive particle) +‎ 平 (hira, “flat”). Compare English flat of one's hand.

Alternative forms

• 手の平
• 手のひら

Noun

掌(てのひら) • (te no hira) 

1. (anatomy) a palm

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
掌
たなうら Grade: S
kun'yomi

From 手 (ta, “hand”) +‎ な (na, archaic possessive particle) +‎ 裏 (ura, “back side; bottom side; face-down side; palmar/plantar side”)

Noun

掌(たなうら) • (tanaura) 

1. (anatomy) a palm

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
掌
たなごころ Grade: S
kun'yomi

From 手 (ta, “hand”) +‎ な (na, archaic possessive particle) +‎ 心 (kokoro, “heart; inside”)

Noun

掌(たなごころ) • (tanagokoro) 

1. (anatomy) a palm

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
掌
しょう Grade: S
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 掌 (MC tsyangX)

Suffix

掌(しょう) • (-shō) ^{←しやう (syau)?}

1. (martial arts) used in the names of moves that involve hitting and pushing hard with the palm

   条(じゅう)拳(けん)法(ぽう)　八(はっ)卦(け)六(ろく)十(じゅう)四(よん)掌(しょう)

   Jūkenpō Hakke Rokujūyonshō

   Jūkenpō: Eight Trigrams, Sixty-Four Palms

   • 2003 September 22, Akinobu Uraku, “第(だい)60話(わ)　少(しょう)女(じょ)の決(けつ)意(い) [Chapter 60: A Girl’s Resolve]”, in 東(とう)京(きょう)アンダーグラウンド [Tokyo Underground], volume 11 (fiction), Square Enix, →ISBN, pages 30–31:

     これがこの赤(セキ)を師(スー)兵(ペイ)の頂(ちょう)点(てん)たらしめる炎(ほのお)だッ!!!我(が)龍(りゅう)双(そう)煉(れん)掌(しょう)

     Kore ga kono Seki o Sūpei no chōten tarashimeru honō da'!!! Garyū Sōrenshō

     This is the flame that helped put me, Seki, at the top of the Supei!!! Garyū Sōrenshō

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Korean

Hanja

掌 (eumhun 손바닥 장 (sonbadak jang))

1. hanja form^? of 손바닥 (“palm of the hand”)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 掌 (chưởng)

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