hand / (formal) to hold / person engaged in certain types of work / person skilled in certain types of work / personal(ly) / convenient / classifier for skill / CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]

Mnemonic symbol: a baseball glove. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is trying out his new baseball glove (手) in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

手 character breakdown

The character 手 cannot be broken down into individual components.

Characters with 手 as component

variant of 舉|举[ju3]

= + : In the space station Zeus eats some dried fruits as he suddenly finds a sea star in the bag. Baffled, he lifts up the sea star to have a closer look.
surname Zhi
sincere

= + : James II of England (zh) is a sincere (挚) baseball fan and wants to take his hobby to the next level, so he gets a very expensive, officially licensed (执) baseball glove (手). The license (执) is still attached to the glove (手) as he tries it on for the first time in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
to hold / to seize / to catch / to apprehend / to take / (used in the same way as 把[ba3]: to mark the following noun as a direct object)

= + : In the ashram's kitchen, Napoleon sees something flying towards him and instinctively catches it with his baseball glove. He realizes too late that what he holds in his hand is a tub of glue which ruined his glove.
old variant of 拿[na2]

= + : In the ashram's kitchen, Napoleon sees something flying towards him and instinctively catches it with his baseball glove. He realizes too late that what he holds in his hand is a tub of glue which ruined his glove.
variant of 拿[na2]

= + : In the ashram's kitchen, Napoleon sees something flying towards him and instinctively catches it with his baseball glove. He realizes too late that what he holds in his hand is a tub of glue which ruined his glove.
to raise (hand)

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) is using a baseball glove (手) to raise her hand (擎) and toast (敬) to herself in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2).
to climb (by pulling oneself up) / to implicate / to claim connections of higher status

= + : Pinocchio (p) is playing catch with a friend in front of the anthill (an1). Although he has a very large baseball glove (手), the last throw was way too high for him: the ball landed on top of a cage (樊) standing in front of the anthill. Pinocchio will have to climb (攀) on the cage to retrieve the ball.
to pull / to draw / to pull back / to withdraw / to flash past
Japanese variant of 舉|举
(bound form) to imitate / to copy
twisted / bent / crooked / cramped
thumb / to break / to tear / to pierce / to split
to raise / to lift / to take along (e.g. one's family)

Words with 手

a skill / mastery of a trade / by oneself / without outside help
working hand; member of a work team; participant / the boss (short form of 第一把手[di4 yi1 ba3 shou3])
to take care of a matter all by oneself / to run the whole show
lit. to hide the sky with one hand / to hide the truth from the masses
USB flash drive
USB flash drive / see also 閃存盤|闪存盘[shan3 cun2 pan2]
to showcase one's (unique) talents / to display one's (individual) prowess
lit. one hand exchanges the cash, the other the goods (idiom) / fig. to pay for what you want in cash / simple and direct transaction

Sentences with 手

ǎn
lǎo
su̅n
méi
yǒu
yi̅
jiàn
chèn
shǒu
de
bi̅ng
qì