手
Meanings
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- 1.hand
- 2.(formal) to hold
- 3.person engaged in certain types of work
- 4.person skilled in certain types of work
- 5.personal(ly)
- 6.convenient
- 7.classifier for skill
- 8.CL:双[shuāng],只[zhī]
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Wiktionary
- 1.hand (Classifier: 隻／只 m c mn; 雙／双 m mn; 對／对 c)
- 2.expert; master
- 3.-ist; -er
- 4.convenient; handy; portable
- 5.handwritten
- 6.Classifier for skills.
- 7.Classifier for transactions.
- 8.luck in gambling
- 9.hidden part (general)
- 10.Classifier for stocks: lot
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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, 又, and 彐 as a stylized hand. Compare 丑 as an animal claw. See also the bottom part of 舉 and 奉. 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 pointing upward, originally composed of 3 toes and a sole. STEDT compares this word to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-(t)sjəw-k/ŋ (“wing; hand”) based on Karlgren's Archaic Chinese (Old Chinese) reconstruction *śi̯ôg, connecting it to Tibetan གཤོག (gshog, “wing”). However, this comparison is not supported by more recent scholarship, in which the Old Chinese is reconstructed with an alveolar nasal (Unger, 1995; Zhengzhang, 1995; Baxter and Sagart, 2014). Evidence for the nasal initial is given in Sagart (1999): * 杻 (“handcuffs”) can be written as 杽, so 丑 (OC *ᵇhnruʔ) (with a nasal initial) and 手 seem to be interchangeable as phonetics. * The ancient graph 丑 resembles the graph of 又 (“right hand”). 狃 (OC *ᵇnruʔ, “animal track; claw”) seems to be the modern specialized form of 丑, which has been borrowed to represent an earthly branch. As done by Sagart (1999), Baxter and Sagart (2014) put 杻 (OC *n̥uʔ, “handcuffs”) and 狃 (OC *Cə.nuʔ, “animal track; claw”) into the same word family as 手 (OC *n̥uʔ). Zhengzhang (1995) suggests a connection to the ညှိုး (hnyui:) in Burmese လက်ညှိုး (lakhnyui:, “forefinger”), which STEDT derives from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-njuŋ ~ *s-m-juŋ ~ *s-m-juw (“finger”). See Proto-Sino-Tibetan *C-njuʔ (“finger”) for more. Alternatively, Schuessler (2007) suggests a tone B endoactive derivation from 收 (OC *nhiu?, “to take; to gather”), literally “that which is doing the taking”.
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
汤姆手小。
Tom has small hands.
手举起来。
Raise your hands.
手举起来。
Put your hands up!
手举起来。
Put your hands up.
湯姆拍了手。
Tom clapped.
這不是手錶。
It's not a watch.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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