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.

• 揕zhèn🔊

  to hit

  12 strokes

• 揖yī🔊

  to greet by raising clasped hands

  12 strokes

• 揗shǔn🔊

  strike, hit with hand

  12 strokes

• 揘héng🔊

  used in 揘畢|揘毕[heng2 bi4]

  12 strokes

• 揜yǎn🔊

  cover up

  12 strokes

• 揝zuàn🔊

  to hold in the hand, to grasp

  12 strokes

• 揞ǎn🔊

  to apply (medicinal powder to a wound)

  12 strokes

• 揠yà🔊

  to eradicate

  12 strokes

• 揥tì🔊

  get rid of

  12 strokes

• 揦là🔊

  old variant of 攋[la4]

  12 strokes

• 揰chòng🔊

  poke out

  12 strokes

• 揲shé🔊

  sort out divining stalks

  12 strokes

• 揳xiē🔊

  to hammer in (a nail)

  12 strokes

• 援yuán🔊

  to help

  12 strokes

• 揻wēi🔊

  (dialect) to bend (a long and thin object)

  12 strokes

• 揾wèn🔊

  (literary) to wipe away (tears)

  12 strokes

• 揿qìn🔊

  variant of 撳|揿[qin4]

  12 strokes

• 搀chān🔊

  to take by the arm and assist

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 搰hú🔊

  to dig

  12 strokes

• 摒bìng🔊

  to discard

  12 strokes

• 搞gǎo🔊

  to do

  HSK 5

  13 strokes

• 搬bān🔊

  to move (i.e. relocate oneself)

  HSK 3

  13 strokes

• 抢qiǎng🔊

  to fight over

  HSK 5

  13 strokes

• 摆bǎi🔊

  to arrange

  HSK 4

  13 strokes

• 摸mō🔊

  to feel with the hand

  HSK 4

  13 strokes

• 摇yáo🔊

  to shake

  HSK 4

  13 strokes

• 捣dǎo🔊

  to pound

  13 strokes

• 摁èn🔊

  to press (with one's finger or hand)

  13 strokes

• 摊tān🔊

  to spread out

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 搏bó🔊

  to fight

  13 strokes

• 损sǔn🔊

  (bound form) to decrease; to diminish

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 搐chù🔊

  to twitch; to have a spasm

  13 strokes

• 携xié🔊

  old variant of 攜|携[xie2]

  13 strokes

• 㨫lǎn🔊

  variant of 擥[lan3]

  13 strokes

• 揅yán🔊

  (literary) variant of 研[yan2]

  13 strokes

• 揫jiū🔊

  to gather

  13 strokes

• 搉què🔊

  consult

  13 strokes

• 搋chuāi🔊

  to knead

  13 strokes

• 搌zhǎn🔊

  to sop up

  13 strokes

• 搒bàng🔊

  (literary) to row (a boat)

  13 strokes

• 搕kè🔊

  to strike

  13 strokes

• 搘zhī🔊

  prop up

  13 strokes

• 搛jiān🔊

  to pick up with chopsticks

  13 strokes

• 搠shuò🔊

  daub

  13 strokes

• 搡sǎng🔊

  to push forcefully

  13 strokes

• 搢jìn🔊

  shake

  13 strokes

• 搣miè🔊

  (literary) to pull out; to remove

  13 strokes

• 搦nuò🔊

  (literary) to hold (in the hand)

  13 strokes