shǒu
hand
Pictograph of a hand.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Deleted component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*n̥uʔ | syuwX | shǒu | hand |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 99.0870% of movies
108th most common character in movies
143rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Unicode | U+624B |
Shuowen | “手,拳也。象形。,古文手。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.844
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