The pinyin of hand is: shǒu

Radical: hand

Strokes: 4

Five elements: gold

Five Elements: Metal

Basic explanation

1. The front end of the upper limbs when people use tools?: ~Heart. Thorn ~ (describes things that are difficult to handle, like thorns pricking the hand). Zhuó (zhuó) ~ (start to do, start). ~Do not release the volume.

2. Hold a book of ?:人～.

3. Do it yourself?: ~Draft. ~ Traces. ~ Order. ~Book (a. handwriting; b. handwritten letter).

4. Skills, abilities?: ~ method (skills, methods). ~ Section. Leave one ~.

5. A person who does something or is good at a certain skill?: Country~. Pa ~. Production capacity ~.

6. A small and easy-to-hold gun. ~ Volume.

Extended information:

"Hand" is a pictographic character. The shape of the bronze inscriptions looks like an outstretched palm on the top and an elbow and wrist on the bottom. The small seal script is also shaped like a hand, but all five fingers are bent. The hand shape can no longer be seen in the official script form. The middle finger becomes the top curl, the index finger and ring finger become a horizontal line, the thumb and little finger become a long horizontal line, and the elbows and wrists become vertical curls. Regular script strokes are transformed.

The original meaning of the word "hand" is the human hand, that is, the part below the wrist that can hold things and do things. It is a noun. It can be extended to mean "craft", "hands" and "holding".

"Shou" is a radical character, often used as a symbol. The characters composed of "hand" in Chinese characters are mostly related to the hand or hand movements, such as "na", "fist", "palm", "", etc.

When "hand" is used as the left radical, it is written as "cai". The characters using "扌" as the glyph are mostly related to various movements of the hand, such as "support", "pull", "grab" and "throw" wait.