Hand (pinyin: shǒu) is a first-class Chinese character (commonly used word). This word first appeared in the bronze inscriptions of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it is pictographic. Its ancient glyph looks like a human hand and has five fingers. In ancient Chinese characters, handwritten radicals are usually written on the side ("You"). The original meaning of the hand refers to the part of the front end of the upper limb that can take things and the front end of the upper limb that uses tools. By extension, it means to hold it in your hand, do it yourself, be small and easy to take, and refer to people. Hands are also used as quantifiers of skills and abilities.
Hand is one of the radicals of Chinese characters, with serial number 80. Write when the hand is on the left. Words with hand as signifier can be divided into two categories: one is nouns, which refer to the parts of the hand, such as fists, palms, thumbs, fingers and so on; One kind is a verb, which refers to the actions of the hand, such as grasping, taking, hitting and crawling. "Hand" and "shovel" belong to the same radical number in the Chinese Character Radical Table, but they are listed separately.
Interpretation of ancient books:
Key hand, hand, Kangxi strokes: 4. External stroke: 0.
Ancient prose:? . Nine parts of Tang Yun. "Ji Yun", "Yun Hui" and "Zheng Yun" start with nine, and the first sound is combined. Ming Shi: You need both hands and career. "Urgent articles": roll the knuckles, claws, thumbs and hands. Notes on stone drums: There are palms. Yi Shuo gua: the root is the hand. Sparse: the root is the end, and the hand can also stop, so it is the hand. Li Yuzao: Your hands are very respectful.
Holding a device with your hand is also called a hand. Li Tangong: Wang Shiyi. I can bow. Biography of the ram in the thirteenth year of Zhuang: Cao Zi followed with a sword in his hand.