Definitions
(noun)
hand; palm
(noun)
person skilled at a certain activity; person who does a type of work
Etymology
Pictograph of a hand.
About
The character 手 originated as a pictograph of an open human hand, clearly drawn with a wrist and five outspread fingers. Its core meaning is 'hand', and it serves as one of the most frequent radicals in Chinese writing, almost always placed on the left side in the compressed variant 扌 to indicate manual actions like holding, striking, or manipulating. Beyond the literal body part, the meaning broadened to designate a person proficient in a skill or profession, commonly used as a suffix for 'expert' or 'specialist'. In its modern shape, a central vertical hook is intersected by three horizontal strokes, a stylized reduction of the palm and fingers.
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请举手回答。
我的手机坏了。
她买了一块手表。
不要动手打人。
他用左手吃饭。
医生明天做手术。
她喜欢做手工礼物。
他用各种手段解决问题。
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