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.

• 摏chōng🔊

  variant of 舂[chong1]

  14 strokes

• 摞luò🔊

  to pile up

  14 strokes

• 摠zǒng🔊

  general

  14 strokes

• 摦huà🔊

  wide

  14 strokes

• 摭zhí🔊

  pick up

  14 strokes

• 摮áo🔊

  (archaic) to hit; to strike; to smite

  14 strokes

• 摴shū🔊

  dice

  14 strokes

• 摷jiǎo🔊

  to knock

  14 strokes

• 摹mó🔊

  (bound form) to imitate

  14 strokes

• 摽biào🔊

  to bind tightly

  14 strokes

• 摿yáo🔊

  erroneous variant of 搖|摇[yao2]

  14 strokes

• 撄yīng🔊

  oppose

  14 strokes

• 撖Hàn🔊

  surname Han

  14 strokes

• 撱tuǒ🔊

  clip

  14 strokes

• 撞zhuàng🔊

  to knock against

  HSK 5

  15 strokes

• 撒sā🔊

  to let go

  HSK 7

  15 strokes

• 撑chēng🔊

  to support

  HSK 6

  15 strokes

• 撤chè🔊

  to remove; to take away

  HSK 7

  15 strokes

• 摩mó🔊

  to rub

  15 strokes

• 撕sī🔊

  to tear

  HSK 7

  15 strokes

• 播bō🔊

  (bound form) to sow (seeds); to spread (ideas, rumors etc); to broadcast (radio signals etc)

  HSK 6

  15 strokes

• 撬qiào🔊

  to lift

  HSK 7

  15 strokes

• 撸lū🔊

  (dialect) to grasp (sth long or cylindrical) and slide the hand up or down

  15 strokes

• 撩liāo🔊

  to lift up (sth hanging down)

  15 strokes

• 擒qín🔊

  to capture

  15 strokes

• 撅juē🔊

  to protrude

  15 strokes

• 撵niǎn🔊

  to expel

  15 strokes

• 撮cuō🔊

  to pick up (a powder etc) with the fingertips

  15 strokes

• 㩐dèn🔊

  variant of 扽[den4]

  15 strokes

• 摰niè🔊

  to seize with the hand

  15 strokes

• 撆piē🔊

  variant of 撇[pie1]

  15 strokes

• 撙zǔn🔊

  to reduce or cut down on

  15 strokes

• 撚niǎn🔊

  to play tricks on or toy with

  15 strokes

• 撢dǎn🔊

  to dust

  15 strokes

• 撰zhuàn🔊

  variant of 撰[zhuan4]

  15 strokes

• 撷xié🔊

  to collect

  15 strokes

• 撺cuān🔊

  rush

  15 strokes

• 擖gě🔊

  scrape

  15 strokes

• 操cāo🔊

  to grasp

  16 strokes

• 擂léi🔊

  to pound (with a mortar and pestle); to hit (a person); to beat (a drum); to bang on (a door)

  16 strokes

• 擅shàn🔊

  without authority

  16 strokes

• 撼hàn🔊

  to shake

  16 strokes

• 撽qiào🔊

  to beat with a stick

  16 strokes

• 擀gǎn🔊

  to roll (dough etc)

  16 strokes

• 擉chuò🔊

  to pierce

  16 strokes

• 擎qíng🔊

  to raise; to hold up; to lift up

  16 strokes

• 擐huàn🔊

  pass through

  16 strokes

• 擗pǐ🔊

  (literary) to beat the breast

  16 strokes