手

See also: 爪 and 寸
手 U+624B, 手
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-624B
← 扊
[U+624A] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 扌 →
[U+624C]

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

  • 扌 (when used as a left Chinese radical)

Han character

手 (radical 64, 手+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 手 (Q), four-corner 20500)

  1. Kangxi radical #64, ⼿.

Derived characters

  • Index:Chinese radical/手

References

  • KangXi: page 416, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11768
  • Dae Jaweon: page 762, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1824, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+624B

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 手

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 手
Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Qin slip script Ancient script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (手) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
杽 *n̥ʰɯwʔ
手 *hnjɯwʔ

Pictogram (象形) – hand and fingers. The top stroke is the bent over middle finger, while the horizontal strokes are each two fingers. Compare 爪, 寸, 九.

Note that unlike the other hand/claw characters, 手 has consistently had five fingers: a mammalian/human hand, as opposed to the three digits often found in the others.

Compare also 止 (“foot”), derived from a footprint, originally composed of 3 toes and a sole.

Pronunciation

Note: chhiú - vernacular, siú - literary.
Rime
Character 手
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 書九切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɕɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɕiuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɕiəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɕuwX/
Li
Rong		 /ɕiuX/
Wang
Li		 /ɕĭəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɕi̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shǒu
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 手
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shǒu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ syuwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*n̥uʔ/
English hand

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 手
Reading # 1/1
No. 11665
Phonetic
component		 手
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 首
Old
Chinese		 /*hnjɯwʔ/

Definitions

手

  1. hand (Classifier: 隻／只 m c; 雙／双 m c)
  2. expert; master
    高手  ―  gāoshǒu  ―  master
  3. -ist; -er
    歌手  ―  gēshǒu  ―  singer
  4. convenient; handy
    手機 / 手机  ―  shǒujī  ―  mobile phone
    手冊 / 手册  ―  shǒucè  ―  handbook
  5. Classifier for transactions.
  6. (Min Nan) luck in gambling

See also

  • 手掌 (shǒuzhǎng, “palm”)
  • 手指 (shǒuzhǐ, “finger”)
  • 手腕 (shǒuwàn, “wrist”)
  • 胳膊 (gēbo, “arm”)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

手

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Noun

手 (hiragana て, rōmaji te)

  1. hand
  2. handle
  3. paw, foreleg
  4. way of doing something, means
    その手 (て)があったか。
    Sono te ga atta ka.
    You could do it that way too?
  5. (board games) a move; a play
    • 2002 March 9, Hotta, Yumi; Obata, Takeshi, “第だい131局きょく　試ためされる伊い角すみ [Game 131: Isumi’s Endeavor]”, in ヒカルの碁 [Hikaru’s Go], volume 16 (fiction, in Japanese), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 54:
      まだそんな手 (て)が残 (のこ)ってた——投 (とう)了 (りょう)は早 (はや)すぎた
      Mada sonna te ga nokotteta—— Tōryō wa hayasugita
      There’s still that move—— I gave up too soon

Korean

Hanja

手 (eumhun 손 수 (son su))

  1. hand

Mulam

Noun

手 (nja2)

  1. hand

Vietnamese

Han character

手 (thủ, tây, trì)

  1. hand
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