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手
JLPT N4 SL1 4 strokes Frequency: #60

Meanings

Hand

Radicals

手

Decomposition

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Etymology

Pictographic: A hand with the fingers splayed

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 4

Stroke Order

1 diagonal right-to-left
2 horizontal bottom-to-top
3 horizontal bottom-to-top
4 unknown bottom-right-to-top-left
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
シュ shu
ズ zu
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
が te

Words Using This Kanji

1511 words total
Other (20 words)
エフェソの信徒への手紙 エフェソのしんとへのてがみ

Epistle to the Ephesians (book of the Bible)

テモテへの手紙一 テモテへのてがみいち

First Epistle to Timothy (book of the Bible)

ヤコブの手紙 ヤコブのてがみ

Epistle of James (book of the Bible)

ヨハネの手紙三 ヨハネのてがみさん

Third Epistle of John (book of the Bible)

ローマ人への手紙 ローマびとへのてがみ

Epistle to the Romans (book of the Bible)

フィレモンへの手紙 フィレモンへのてがみ

Epistle to Philemon (book of the Bible)

ヨハネの手紙一 ヨハネのてがみいち

First Epistle of John (book of the Bible)

手を挙げる てをあげる

to raise one's hand

手水舎 てみずや

place for ritual cleansing of hands and mouth with water when visiting shrines

手前ども てまえども

we (esp. used by merchants, etc.)

相手方当事者 あいてがたとうじしゃ

adversary party

手をつける てをつける

to set one's hand to

ゴム手 ゴムて

rubber gloves

絵手紙 えてがみ

letter made from a picture one has drawn

手操作 てそうさ

manual process

手の早い てのはやい

fast (worker)

犬四手 いぬしで

Chonowski's hornbeam (Carpinus tschonoskii)

熊四手 くましで

Japanese hornbeam (Carpinus japonica)

御手洗川 みたらしがわ

river in which worshippers wash their hands (and rinse their mouth) prior to entering a shrine

四手の木 しでのき

loose-flowered hornbeam (Carpinus laxiflora)