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.

• 挽wǎn🔊

  variant of 挽[wan3]

  HSK 7

  10 strokes

• 挼ruá🔊

  (dialect) (of paper or cloth) wrinkled; crumpled

  10 strokes

• 损sǔn🔊

  (bound form) to decrease; to diminish

  HSK 7

  10 strokes

• 挫cuò🔊

  obstructed

  10 strokes

• 捌bā🔊

  eight (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

  10 strokes

• 挈qiè🔊

  to raise

  10 strokes

• 挐ná🔊

  to apprehend

  10 strokes

• 挚zhì🔊

  sincere

  10 strokes

• 挛luán🔊

  (bound form) (of muscles) to cramp; to spasm

  10 strokes

• 挶jú🔊

  structure for carrying dirt

  10 strokes

• 挹yì🔊

  (literary) to scoop up; to ladle out

  10 strokes

• 捃jùn🔊

  gather

  10 strokes

• 捋lǚ🔊

  to smooth or arrange sth using one's fingers

  10 strokes

• 捍hàn🔊

  variant of 捍[han4]

  10 strokes

• 捗bù🔊

  to make progress

  10 strokes

• 捘zùn🔊

  push

  10 strokes

• 捙yè🔊

  erroneous variant of 拽[ye4]

  10 strokes