hand

Origin & mnemonic

This radical originates from an oracle-bone pictograph depicting the human hand with fingers spread open. In seal script, it retains the recognizable shape of a hand with wrist and fingers clearly shown.

Mnemonic: The hand radical's four strokes form the silhouette of a palm, with the horizontal line in the middle like a hand's crease.

• 㧐sǒng🔊

  (literary) to stand upright

  7 strokes

• 㧑huī🔊

  to split

  7 strokes

• 扰rǎo🔊

  to disturb

  7 strokes

• 扻zì🔊

  to strike

  7 strokes

• 扼è🔊

  to grip forcefully

  7 strokes

• 扽dèn🔊

  to yank

  7 strokes

• 抃biàn🔊

  to applaud

  7 strokes

• 抆wèn🔊

  to wipe

  7 strokes

• 抈yuè🔊

  to bend

  7 strokes

• 抉jué🔊

  to pick out

  7 strokes

• 抌dǎn🔊

  (archaic) to strike forcefully; to stab

  7 strokes

• 抏wán🔊

  to consume

  7 strokes

• 抑yì🔊

  to restrain

  7 strokes

• 抒shū🔊

  to express

  7 strokes

• 抔póu🔊

  take up in both hands

  7 strokes

• 抚fǔ🔊

  to comfort

  7 strokes

• 抟tuán🔊

  to roll up into a ball with one's hands (variant of 團|团[tuan2])

  7 strokes

• 拉lā🔊

  to pull

  HSK 2

  8 strokes

• 拍pāi🔊

  to pat

  HSK 3

  8 strokes

• 抱bào🔊

  to hold

  HSK 4

  8 strokes

• 抽chōu🔊

  to draw out; to pull out from in between

  HSK 4

  8 strokes

• 拖tuō🔊

  to drag

  HSK 6

  8 strokes

• 拆chāi🔊

  to tear open

  HSK 5

  8 strokes

• 抹mǒ🔊

  to smear

  HSK 7

  8 strokes

• 抬tái🔊

  to lift

  HSK 5

  8 strokes

• 押yā🔊

  to mortgage

  HSK 7

  8 strokes

• 招zhāo🔊

  to recruit

  HSK 6

  8 strokes

• 拨bō🔊

  to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc

  HSK 7

  8 strokes

• 拔bá🔊

  to pull up

  HSK 5

  8 strokes

• 拦lán🔊

  to block sb's path

  HSK 7

  8 strokes

• 拧níng🔊

  to pinch

  HSK 7

  8 strokes

• 拐guǎi🔊

  cane

  HSK 6

  8 strokes

• 拎līn🔊

  to lift up; to carry in one's hand

  HSK 7

  8 strokes

• 承chéng🔊

  to bear

  8 strokes

• 披pī🔊

  to drape over one's shoulders

  HSK 5

  8 strokes

• 拌bàn🔊

  to mix

  HSK 7

  8 strokes

• 拥yōng🔊

  to hold in one's arms; to embrace

  8 strokes

• 拣jiǎn🔊

  to choose

  HSK 7

  8 strokes

• 抵dǐ🔊

  to press against; to support; to prop up

  8 strokes

• 拚pàn🔊

  to strive for

  8 strokes

• 担dān🔊

  to undertake

  HSK 7

  8 strokes

• 拘jū🔊

  to capture

  8 strokes

• 拓tà🔊

  to make a rubbing (e.g. of an inscription)

  8 strokes

• 㧟kuǎi🔊

  (dialect) to scratch (an itch)

  8 strokes

• 抦bǐng🔊

  old variant of 秉[bing3]

  8 strokes

• 抨pēng🔊

  attack

  8 strokes

• 抴yè🔊

  to pull

  8 strokes

• 抶chì🔊

  beat

  8 strokes