(shǒu) - hand; first, leading in Mandarin
shǒuTraditional: 手
Translation
hand; first, leading
Word origin
手 (shǒu) means 'hand'. It is a pictograph of a hand with the fingers and wrist, one of the oldest hand graphs, and serves as the radical (扌) in many characters for actions done with the hands.
- Origin
- pictograph
- Root
- a hand with spread fingers
Stroke order
手
Examples
。
Washing your hands is important.
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Her hands are very cold.
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He is an expert.
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My hands are very cold.
举。
Raise your hand to answer the question.
手 (shǒu) - hand; first, leading.
Where this fits
Appears in 11 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 手.
Used in
Stories
(4)Grammar articles
(13)Mandarin Adjectives as Stative Verbs: Why 'I Am Cold' Is 我冷, Not 我是冷
The Mandarin 把 (bǎ) Construction: Fronting the Object to Say What You Did To It
The Mandarin 被 (bèi) Passive: Saying Something Was Done To the Subject
Chinese Measure Words (Mandarin Classifiers): The Core Dozen, Which One Your Noun Takes, and the Safe Default
Mandarin Co-verbs: 从, 到, 在, 用, 坐, 给 - the Prepositions That Look Like Verbs
Mandarin Conjunctions: 虽然…但是, 因为…所以, 如果…就 and the Paired Structures That Join Clauses
The Mandarin Durative 着 (zhe): Marking a State That Continues (门开着, 拿着书, 笑着说)
Mandarin Loanwords: 咖啡, 沙发, 巧克力 and the Words You Already Know
The Spoken Passives 让 (ràng), 叫 (jiào) and 给 (gěi): What People Say Instead of 被
Mandarin Possession with 的 (de): My, Your, His, and When Mandarin Drops the Particle
Mandarin Requests and Imperatives: 请, 别, 不要, the Softening Particles 吧/啊, and Verb Reduplication
Mandarin Sentence Structure: Word Order, Topic-Comment and the 把 Construction
Mandarin 之 (zhī): 之一, 之间, 之后, 之中, 总之 and the Written Ancestor of 的
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