爪, a variant of 手✋, serves as a semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component 爪 have to do with hand or actions of hand.
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Characters formed by the semantic component 爪.
4 |
爪 |
zhǎo,zhuǎ |
8 |
爬 |
pá |
9 |
爮 |
páo |
15 |
jué |
爪 also can act as a phonetic component to form the character 抓 zhuā.
See all the components derived from 手.