手
Translingual
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Alternative forms
- 扌 (when used as a left Chinese radical)
Etymology
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.
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Han character
手 (radical 64 手+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 手 (Q), four-corner 20500)
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
Hakka
Hanzi
手 (POJ shíu, Guangdong shu3, shiu3 [Meixian], s'iu3 [Hailu, Kwangtung], su3 [Siyan], Hagfa Pinyim su3)
References
- CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
- Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
- Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.
Korean
Hanja
手
Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 수 (revised: su, McCune-Reischauer: su, Yale: swu)
- Name (hangeul): 손()
Mandarin
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Pronunciation
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Hanzi
手 (pinyin shǒu (shou3), Wade-Giles shou3)
Noun
手 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin shǒu)