手 | ||
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手 (U+624B) "hand" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | shǒu | |
Bopomofo: | ㄕㄡˇ | |
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | shoou | |
Wade–Giles: | shou3 | |
Cantonese Yale: | sáu | |
Jyutping: | sau2 | |
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | siú | |
Japanese Kana: | シュウ shū (on'yomi) て te (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 수 su | |
Names | ||
Chinese name(s): | (扌) 提手旁 tíshǒupáng (Bottom) 手字底 shǒuzìdǐ | |
Japanese name(s): | 手/て te (扌) 手偏/てへん tehen | |
Hangul: | 손 son (扌) 재방변/才傍邊 jaebangbyeon | |
Stroke order animation | ||
Radical 64 or radical hand (手部) meaning "hand" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
When appearing as a left-side component, this radical is almost always written as 扌 (notable exceptions: 拜, although Japanese shinjitai analogizes it to 拝; and dialectal characters 掰, 搿), while it becomes a vertically compressed 手 when appearing as a bottom component.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 1203 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
手 is also the 80th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 扌 being its associated indexing component.