手

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

hand

HSK 1 N4

Human →Body →Limbs

shǒu

シュ、ズ

て、て-、-て、た-

수

Pictograph of a hand.

Notes

Historical Evolution

Bronze

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

手

Regular

Modern

Chinese

手 [shǒu]

hand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work; person skilled in certain types of work; personal(ly); convenient; classifier for skill; CL:雙|双[shuāng],隻|只[zhī]

Japanese

手て同音

noun

hand; arm (occ. pronounced た when a prefix)
colloquial forepaw; foreleg
handle
hand; worker; help
trouble; care; effort
means; way; trick; move; technique; workmanship
hand; handwriting
kind; type; sort
one's hands; one's possession
ability to cope
hand (of cards)
direction
move (in go, shogi, etc.)

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (5)

こちらに来るように手で合図した。

I made motions at him to come here with my hand.

ここに手のないナベがある。

Here is a pan without handles.

いい手を思いついた。

I hit upon a good idea.

本は現在誰の手にも入る。

Books are now within the reach of everybody.

Japanese Names

手たかで

Takade surname

手たそめ

Tasome unclassified name

手て

Te place name

手てさき

Tesaki surname

手てざき

Tezaki surname

CHINESE WORDS (200)

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JAPANESE WORDS (200)

⭐ 相手 [あいて] #176

companion

⭐ 勝手 [かって] #368

one's own convenience

⭐ 手に入れる [てにいれる] #1,020

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KOREAN WORDS (61)

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