Character Details
| hand | Ascii: — | w303 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 手 | shǒu | shoh | 3 | 手 (hand) → hand | 手 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
 |
This pictograph actually really works if you look at it as a hand with fingers spread and middle finger pointing down. See the very top stroke as the edge of a shirt cuff, and it will all come together. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - In oracle-bone inscriptions, the form of this character was an abstract depiction of five fingers with the lower part of the arm. The smaller form of 'hand' is used as a component in certain compounds. It is known as the 'cutting hand'. Anything involving physical action. Examples: 打, 找, 把, 提, 推. Full version same as 扌 but appears at bottom. Examples: 手, 拿 | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Where's the bathroom? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
| Strokes | |||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 64 - — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 手 (hand) → hand | 手 (semantic) | — | pure semantic | ||||||||