手 hand I

Component hand 手 I

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.

4

shǒu

8

chéng

9

bài

9

10

luán

10

10

qiè

10

quán

10

zhì

10

10

gǒng

10

11

suō,shā

12

bāi

12

chè

12

12

zhǎng

12

qiān

13

yán

13

jiū

13

13

xiāo

14

14

14

qiān

14

áo

14

pán

14

15

mā,mó

15

zhì

15

ji

15

piē

15

niè

15

gòu

16

dūn

16

qíng

17

17

17

18

lǎn

18

19

pān

23

luán

 

 

 

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