Chinese Character Wiki
手

shǒu

hand

Pictograph of a hand.

Evolution

手 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
手 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
手 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
手 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

手  

shǒu

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[shuāng],隻|只[zhī]

Most common words with 手
Freq.
Word
Meaning

手

hand

选手

athlete

手术

surgery

对手

opponent

凶手

murderer

Component uses

Meaning component in 23 characters (8 verified)

擊 举 舉 拏 拿 掌 摩 攀 拳 摹 挚 摯 擎 挛 攣 掣 掰 挈 挲 搿 擘 搴 掱

Iconic component in 2 characters (2 verified)

承 拜

Deleted component in 1 character (1 verified)

击

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。”


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