手
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hand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work; person skilled in certain types of work; personal(ly); convenient; classifier for skill; CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 手 itself
- Structure
- Single component 独体
- Traditional
- 手
- Common rank
- #41
- Unicode
- U+624B
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Formation & memory
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How 手 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
A hand with the fingers splayed
How to remember it
hand · Heisig RSH #584
— as a component also called: hand
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 手
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 手机 | cell phone; mobile phone; CL:部[bu4],臺|台[tai2] | |
| 洗手间 | toilet; lavatory; washroom | |
| 人手 | manpower; staff; human hand | |
| 一手 | a skill; mastery of a trade; by oneself; without outside help | |
| 国手 | (sports) member of the national team; national representative; (medicine, chess etc) one o… | |
| 水手 | sailor; seaman; mariner | |
| 手头 | on hand; at hand; one's financial situation | |
| 有一手 | to have a skill; to have a lot on the ball; to have an affair | |
| 大力水手 | Popeye (the Sailor) | |
| 手心 | palm (of one's hand); control (extended meaning from having something in the palm of one's… | |
| 生手 | novice; new hand; sb new to a job | |
| 手自一体 | manumatic | |
| 手性 | chiral; chirality (chemistry) | |
| 拉手 | to hold hands; to shake hands | |
| 拉手 | a handle; to pull on a handle | |
| 动手 | to set about (a task); to raise a hand to hit sb; to touch; to handle (typically used in c… | |
| 手动 | manual; manually operated; manual gear-change | |
| 手拉手 | to join hands; hand in hand | |
| 高高手儿 | Please do not be too severe on me! | |
| 上手 | to obtain; to master; overhand (serve etc); seat of honor |