手, a pictographic character of hand, has eleven variants. 手 serves as a semantic component to form characters. Most of the characters formed by the semantic component 手 have the up-down structure such as 拳, 拿, 掌,挚, 掣, 挚, etc.
Characters formed by the semantic component 手 denote “hand parts, hand-related actions, or hand-related extended meanings”.
See also this variant of 手: 扌, which is such an important component that it can form up to 700 characters.
Characters with the semantic component 手
There are 42 characters formed by the semantic component 手. As it is stated above, 手 has 11 other variants, check all of them.
手 is a very powerful component because it and its other variants can form numerous characters.
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4 |
手 |
shǒu |
8 |
承 |
chéng |
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9 |
拜 |
bài |
9 |
拏 |
ná |
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10 |
挛 |
luán |
10 |
拿 |
ná |
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10 |
挈 |
qiè |
10 |
拳 |
quán |
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10 |
挚 |
zhì |
10 |
挐 |
rú |
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10 |
拲 |
gǒng |
10 |
挙 |
jǔ |
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11 |
挲 |
suō,shā |
12 |
掰 |
bāi |
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12 |
掣 |
chè |
12 |
掱 |
pá |
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12 |
掌 |
zhǎng |
12 |
掔 |
qiān |
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13 |
揅 |
yán |
13 |
揫 |
jiū |
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13 |
揧 |
là |
13 |
揱 |
xiāo |
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14 |
搿 |
gé |
14 |
摹 |
mó |
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14 |
搴 |
qiān |
14 |
摮 |
áo |
|
14 |
搫 |
pán |
14 |
搻 |
ná |
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15 |
摩 |
mā,mó |
15 |
摯 |
zhì |
|
15 |
撃 |
ji |
15 |
撆 |
piē |
|
15 |
摰 |
niè |
15 |
撀 |
gòu |
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16 |
撉 |
dūn |
16 |
擎 |
qíng |
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17 |
擘 |
bò |
17 |
擧 |
jǔ |
|
17 |
擊 |
jī |
18 |
擥 |
lǎn |
|
18 |
擪 |
yè |
19 |
攀 |
pān |
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23 |
luán |
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手 – Related expressions：
- 手板
- 棘手
- 分手
- 手段
- 抓手
- 手淫
- 携手
- 手腕
- 手足
- 提手
- 炙手可热
- 妙手回春
- 额手称庆
- 爱不释手
- 蹑手蹑脚
- 束手无策
- 袖手旁观
- 胼手胝足
- 大显身手
- 刽子手