掌
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palm of the hand; sole of the foot; paw; horseshoe; to slap; to hold in one's hand; to wield
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 手 +8
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 掌
- Common rank
- #1,080
- Unicode
- U+638C
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 掌
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 长掌义县龙 | Yixianosaurus longimanus, theropod dinosaur from Yi county 義縣|义县, Jinzhou 錦州|锦州, west Liao… | |
| 掌子面 | face (mining) | |
| 手掌心 | see 手心[shou3 xin1] | |
| 掌上电脑 | handheld computer; PDA (personal digital assistant); Pocket PC | |
| 掌门人 | (wuxia) sect leader; (fig.) person in charge; head; leader; proprietor | |
| 如来佛的掌心 | the palm of the Buddha's hand (a metaphor for a higher authority or force from whose contr… | |
| 掌声雷动 | thunderous applause (idiom) | |
| 易如反掌 | easy as a hand's turn (idiom); very easy; no effort at all | |
| 掌上明珠 | lit. a pearl in the palm (idiom); fig. beloved person (esp. daughter) | |
| 了如指掌 | to know sth like the back of one's hand (idiom); to know (a person, a place etc) inside ou… | |
| 了如指掌 | variant of 了如指掌[liao3 ru2 zhi3 zhang3] | |
| 易于反掌 | see 易如反掌[yi4 ru2 fan3 zhang3] | |
| 掌上压 | (HK, Malaysia) push-up; press-up (exercise) | |
| 仙人掌果 | prickly pear | |
| 一个巴掌拍不响 | lit. one palm alone cannot clap (proverb); fig. it takes two persons to start a dispute; i… | |
| 掌心 | hollow of the palm | |
| 马掌 | the cutin skin of a horse's hoof; horseshoe | |
| 掌机 | handheld game console | |
| 手掌 | palm | |
| 主掌 | in charge (of a position etc); the person in charge; responsible |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 尚 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尚 sound part | still, yet; even; fairly, rather | |
| 常 | common, general, normal; always, frequently, regularly | |
| 党 | political party, gang, faction | |
| 堂 | hall, large room; government office; cousins | |
| 赏 | reward; to appreciate; to bestow, to grant | |
| 尝 | to taste; to experience, to experiment with | |
| 躺 | to recline, to lie down | |
| 敞 | wide, open, spacious | |
| 棠 | crabapple tree; wild plum | |
| 趟 | time, occasion; to make a journey | |
| 倘 | if, supposing, in event of | |
| 淌 | to trickle down, to flow, to drip; to shed tears | |
| 裳 | skirt, petticoat; beautiful | |
| 惝 | alarmed, agitated | |
| 徜 | to linger, to walk back and forth | |
| 绱 | the sole of a shoe; to patch, to sole | |
| 䠀 | to meditate; to sit cross-legged | |
| 牚 | variant of 撐|撑[cheng1] |