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.

• 揶yé🔊

  to gesticulate

  11 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

• 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

• 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