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

to raise / to lift / to take along (e.g. one's family)
to seize with the hand / to grasp / to advance / to breakdown
to apprehend / to take
feel / to fondle
variant of 挲[suo1]
variant of 手[shou3] in 扒手[pa2 shou3]
variant of 扒[pa2] in 扒手[pa2 shou3]
grind fine / study / research
to gather / to collect
(literary) to hit; to strike; to smite
variant of 撇[pie1]

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