Meaning & readings
hand
Origin
This character is a simple picture of a hand. The four strokes represent the palm and fingers in a simplified, stylized way—if you look at the shape, you can see something like an open palm with the fingers extending outward. Over thousands of years, the image became more abstract and geometric, but the basic idea stayed the same: the strokes still suggest the outline of a hand. Because hands are so useful and important in everyday life, this character became one of the most common ones in Japanese and Chinese writing.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Pictographic or simple.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (手).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 4
- Kangxi radical
- 64
- Grade
- Grade 1 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #60 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 4
- Unicode
- U+0624B