Hand

N5 · 4 stroke · 22 kanji

Four strokes — three horizontal lines for the fingers, one vertical stroke for the palm. 手 appears as 扌 (hand radical) on the left side of hundreds of action kanji.

Three horizontal lines — the fingers, spread wide. One vertical stroke — the palm holding them together. This is 手: a hand open, ready to give, receive, hold, or write. In its radical form 扌, it becomes the left side of every kanji about action, craft, and contact — the most active radical in the language.

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Kanji using this radical
2 kanji
Friend
とも · ゆう
Hold / Have
も・つ ·

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