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.

• 掞shàn🔊

  easy

  11 strokes

• 掟zhěng🔊

  (HK dialect) to throw

  11 strokes

• 掤bīng🔊

  arrow-quiver cover

  11 strokes

• 措cuò🔊

  to handle

  11 strokes

• 掫zōu🔊

  beat the night watches

  11 strokes

• 掬jū🔊

  to hold in one's hands

  11 strokes

• 掭tiàn🔊

  to smooth (a brush) against the inkstone (after dipping it in ink)

  11 strokes

• 掮qián🔊

  to carry on the shoulder

  11 strokes

• 掯kèn🔊

  to push down

  11 strokes

• 掳lǔ🔊

  (bound form) to capture (sb)

  11 strokes

• 掼guàn🔊

  to fling

  11 strokes

• 揵qián🔊

  carry

  11 strokes

• 揶yé🔊

  to gesticulate

  11 strokes

• 换huàn🔊

  to exchange

  HSK 2

  12 strokes

• 提tí🔊

  to carry (hanging down from the hand)

  HSK 2

  12 strokes

• 搭dā🔊

  to put up

  HSK 6

  12 strokes

• 揍zòu🔊

  to hit; to beat (sb)

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 插chā🔊

  old variant of 插[cha1]

  HSK 5

  12 strokes

• 搜sōu🔊

  to search

  HSK 5

  12 strokes

• 握wò🔊

  to hold; to grasp

  HSK 5

  12 strokes

• 搂lǒu🔊

  to hug

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 揪jiū🔊

  to seize

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 搅jiǎo🔊

  to disturb

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 掰bāi🔊

  to break off or break open sth with one's hands

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 揉róu🔊

  to knead

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 掌zhǎng🔊

  palm of the hand

  12 strokes

• 搁gē🔊

  to place

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 揭jiē🔊

  to take the lid off

  HSK 6

  12 strokes

• 搓cuō🔊

  to rub or roll between the hands or fingers

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 揽lǎn🔊

  to monopolize; to seize

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 挥huī🔊

  to wave

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 扬yáng🔊

  to raise

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 拣jiǎn🔊

  to choose

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 搽chá🔊

  to apply (ointment, powder)

  12 strokes

• 搔sāo🔊

  to scratch

  12 strokes

• 掣chè🔊

  to pull

  12 strokes

• 揣chuāi🔊

  to put into (one's pockets, clothes)

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 揩kāi🔊

  to wipe

  12 strokes

• 揸zhā🔊

  to stretch fingers out

  12 strokes

• 掔qiān🔊

  lead along

  12 strokes

• 掱pá🔊

  variant of 扒[pa2] in 扒手[pa2 shou3]

  12 strokes

• 掾yuàn🔊

  official

  12 strokes

• 揃jiān🔊

  shear

  12 strokes

• 揄yú🔊

  to draw out

  12 strokes

• 揆kuí🔊

  consider

  12 strokes

• 揌sāi🔊

  to shake

  12 strokes

• 揎xuān🔊

  to roll up one's sleeves

  12 strokes

• 揓shì🔊

  to hold

  12 strokes