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.

• 擞sǒu🔊

  used in 抖擻|抖擞[dou3 sou3]

  16 strokes

• 擭huò🔊

  trap

  16 strokes

• 擦cā🔊

  to rub; to scratch

  HSK 4

  17 strokes

• 击jī🔊

  to hit

  17 strokes

• 擤xǐng🔊

  to blow one's nose

  17 strokes

• 擘bò🔊

  thumb

  17 strokes

• 擢zhuó🔊

  to pull out

  17 strokes

• 擨yé🔊

  old variant of 揶[ye2]

  17 strokes

• 擩rǔ🔊

  to stain

  17 strokes

• 擿tī🔊

  to select

  17 strokes

• 攃sà🔊

  preceding

  17 strokes

• 擸liè🔊

  to hold, to grasp

  18 strokes

• 攂léi🔊

  to beat (old variant of 擂[lei2])

  18 strokes

• 攀pān🔊

  to climb (by pulling oneself up)

  HSK 7

  19 strokes

• 攒zǎn🔊

  to collect

  HSK 7

  19 strokes

• 攈jùn🔊

  old variant of 捃[jun4]

  19 strokes

• 攉huō🔊

  to shovel

  19 strokes

• 攐qiān🔊

  variant of 褰, to hold up the hem of clothes

  19 strokes

• 攓qiān🔊

  variant of 搴[qian1], to seize

  20 strokes

• 攘rǎng🔊

  (literary) to push up one's sleeves

  20 strokes

• 攟jùn🔊

  old variant of 捃[jun4]

  22 strokes

• 攫jué🔊

  to seize

  23 strokes

• 攥zuàn🔊

  (coll.) to hold

  23 strokes

• 攮nǎng🔊

  to fend off

  25 strokes