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U+624B, 手
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-624B

[U+624A]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+624C]
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⼿ U+2F3F, ⼿
KANGXI RADICAL HAND

[U+2F3E]
Kangxi Radicals
[U+2F40]
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🈐 U+1F210, 🈐
SQUARED CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-624B
[unassigned: U+1F203–U+1F20F]
🈂
[U+1F202]
Enclosed Ideographic Supplement 🈑
[U+1F211]

Translingual

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Alternative forms

  • (when used as a left Chinese radical)

Han character

(Kangxi radical 64, +0, 4 strokes, cangjie input (Q), four-corner 20500, composition 𠂌)

  1. Kangxi radical #64, ⼿.

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 416, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11768
  • Dae Jaweon: page 762, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1824, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+624B
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Pictogram (象形) – hand and fingers. The top stroke is the bent over middle finger, while the horizontal strokes are each two fingers. Compare , , , , and as a stylized hand. Compare as an animal claw. See also the bottom part of and .

Note that unlike the other hand/claw characters, has consistently had five fingers: a mammalian/human hand, as opposed to the three digits often found in the others.

Compare also (“foot”), derived from a footprint pointing upward, originally composed of 3 toes and a sole.

Etymology

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):

  • (“handcuffs”) can be written as , so (OC *ᵇhnruʔ) (with a nasal initial) and seem to be interchangeable as phonetics.
  • The ancient graph resembles the graph of (“right hand”). (OC *ᵇnruʔ, “animal track; claw”) seems to be the modern specialized form of , which has been borrowed to represent an earthly branch.

As done by Sagart (1999), Baxter and Sagart (2014) put (OC *n̥<r>uʔ, “handcuffs”) and (OC *Cə.n<r>uʔ, “animal track; claw”) into the same word family as (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 (OC *nhiu?, “to take; to gather”), literally “that which is doing the taking”.

Pronunciation


Note:
  • ciu3 - vernacular;
  • siu3 - literary.

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Definitions

  1. hand (Classifier: m c mn;  m mn;  c)
  2. expert; master
       gāoshǒu   master
  3. -ist; -er
       shǒu   singer
  4. convenient; handy; portable
       shǒu   mobile phone
       shǒu   handbook
  5. handwritten
  6. Classifier for skills.
       xiě de yī shǒu hǎo zì   to write a good hand
  7. Classifier for transactions.
  8. (Southern Min) luck in gambling
  9. (Taiwanese Hokkien) hidden part (general)
  10. (finance) Classifier for stocks: lot

See also

  • 手掌 (shǒuzhǎng, “palm”)
  • 手指 (shǒuzhǐ, “finger”)
  • 手腕 (shǒuwàn, “wrist”)
  • 胳膊 (gēbo, “arm”)

Usage notes

In many varieties of Chinese south of the Yangtze River, (shǒu) refers to the arm and hand collectively.

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (しゅ) (shu)
  • Korean: 수(手) (su)
  • Vietnamese: thủ ()
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Kunigami

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Yaeyama

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