Besides the most common hands 手 and 扌，there are 10 hidden hands in Chinese characters you may not recognize. These hands reflect the activities of hands, origins of many characters. Continue reading “These 10 hidden hands will blow your mind (ultimate version of hand 手)”
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爪 hand XIII
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. Continue reading “爪 hand XIII”
手 hand 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. Continue reading “手 hand I”
Component 尤 a growing plant
There are two versions for the original meaning of 尤: 1. a growing plant 2. hand. 尤 serves as a phonetic component to form characters. Continue reading “Component 尤 a growing plant”
刍 a hand holding a bunch of hay
刍, a compound ideograph of a hand holding a bunch of hay/grass, serves as a phonetic component to form characters. Characters formed by the phonetic component 刍 have the same or similar pronunciation as 刍.