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.

• 把bǎ🔊

  to hold; to grasp

  HSK 3

  7 strokes

• 找zhǎo🔊

  to try to find

  HSK 1

  7 strokes

• 抓zhuā🔊

  to grab

  HSK 3

  7 strokes

• 抢qiǎng🔊

  to fight over

  HSK 5

  7 strokes

• 投tóu🔊

  to throw (sth in a specific direction: ball, javelin, grenade etc)

  HSK 4

  7 strokes

• 报bào🔊

  to report; to inform; to announce

  HSK 3

  7 strokes

• 扯chě🔊

  variant of 扯[che3]

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 扶fú🔊

  to support with the hand

  HSK 5

  7 strokes

• 抛pāo🔊

  to throw

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 扮bàn🔊

  to disguise oneself as

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 抄chāo🔊

  to make a copy

  HSK 4

  7 strokes

• 扭niǔ🔊

  to turn

  HSK 6

  7 strokes

• 抖dǒu🔊

  to tremble

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 折zhé🔊

  variant of 折[zhe2]

  HSK 4

  7 strokes

• 抗kàng🔊

  to resist

  7 strokes

• 拒jù🔊

  to resist

  7 strokes

• 批pī🔊

  to ascertain

  HSK 4

  7 strokes

• 护hù🔊

  to protect

  HSK 6

  7 strokes

• 扳bān🔊

  to pull

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 抠kōu🔊

  to dig; to pick; to scratch (with a finger or sth pointed)

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 抡lūn🔊

  to swing (one's arms, a heavy object)

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 技jì🔊

  skill

  7 strokes

• 拟nǐ🔊

  doubtful

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 㧐sǒng🔊

  (literary) to stand upright

  7 strokes

• 㧑huī🔊

  to split

  7 strokes

• 扰rǎo🔊

  to disturb

  7 strokes

• 扻zì🔊

  to strike

  7 strokes

• 扼è🔊

  to grip forcefully

  7 strokes

• 扽dèn🔊

  to yank

  7 strokes

• 抃biàn🔊

  to applaud

  7 strokes

• 抆wèn🔊

  to wipe

  7 strokes

• 抈yuè🔊

  to bend

  7 strokes

• 抉jué🔊

  to pick out

  7 strokes

• 抌dǎn🔊

  (archaic) to strike forcefully; to stab

  7 strokes

• 抏wán🔊

  to consume

  7 strokes

• 抑yì🔊

  to restrain

  7 strokes

• 抒shū🔊

  to express

  7 strokes

• 抔póu🔊

  take up in both hands

  7 strokes

• 抚fǔ🔊

  to comfort

  7 strokes

• 抟tuán🔊

  to roll up into a ball with one's hands (variant of 團|团[tuan2])

  7 strokes

• 拉lā🔊

  to pull

  HSK 2

  8 strokes

• 拍pāi🔊

  to pat

  HSK 3

  8 strokes

• 抱bào🔊

  to hold

  HSK 4

  8 strokes

• 抽chōu🔊

  to draw out; to pull out from in between

  HSK 4

  8 strokes

• 拖tuō🔊

  to drag

  HSK 6

  8 strokes

• 拆chāi🔊

  to tear open

  HSK 5

  8 strokes

• 抹mǒ🔊

  to smear

  HSK 7

  8 strokes

• 抬tái🔊

  to lift

  HSK 5

  8 strokes