Hand in Chinese (Mandarin): 手 (shǒu)

Use it in a sentence

The characters in 手

• 手

  Hand. It began as a drawing of a hand with its fingers.

  4 strokes

Third tone, dipping low. On the left of a character, 手 becomes 扌, as in 打 (dǎ, hit) and 拍 (pāi, clap).

More examples with 手

• 我举手。

  我舉手。

  Wǒ jǔ shǒu.

  I raise my hand.

• 我的手很干净。

  我的手很乾淨。

  Wǒ de shǒu hěn gānjìng.

  My hands are clean.

How to write 手 in Chinese

Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.