手

• 扌 (when used as a left Chinese radical)

手 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 手 (Q), four-corner 2050₀, composition ⿻𠂌一)

1. Kangxi radical #64, ⼿.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/手
• 㐿, 𡛊, 𢌜, 𣲬, 𨑲, 杽, 𣧙, 𤘶, 𥾹, 𧦌, 𧵃, 𮛋, 𨥋, 𪌐, 𪎚
• 劧, 𠓢, 𠰅, 𥤺, 𥩝, 𥬄, 𩇮, 𦥹, 篫, 𬝩, 𢎇, 𠨾, 𭙕, 𧆠, 𪊗, 𪎮, 䦐, 𡆺, 𦵛

• KangXi: page 416, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11768
• Dae Jaweon: page 762, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1824, character 1
• Unihan data for U+624B

Historical forms of the character 手
Western Zhou	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)		Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Ancient script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – hand and fingers. The top stroke is the bent over middle finger, while the horizontal strokes are each two fingers. Compare 爪, 寸, 九, 又.

Note that unlike the other hand/claw characters, 手 has consistently had five fingers: a mammalian/human hand, as opposed to the three digits often found in the others.

Compare also 止 (“foot”), derived from a footprint, originally composed of 3 toes and a sole.

STEDT compares this word to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-(t)sjəw-k/ŋ (“wing; hand”) based on Karlgren's Archaic Chinese (Old Chinese) reconstruction *śi̯ôg, connecting it to Tibetan གཤོག (gshog, “wing”).

However, this comparison is not supported by more recent scholarship, in which the Old Chinese is reconstructed with an alveolar nasal (Unger, 1995; Zhengzhang, 1995; Baxter and Sagart, 2014). Evidence for the nasal initial is given in Sagart (1999):

• 杻 (“handcuffs”) can be written as 杽, so 丑 (OC *ᵇhnruʔ) (with a nasal initial) and 手 seem to be interchangeable as phonetics.
• The ancient graph 丑 resembles the graph of 又 (“right hand”). 狃 (OC *ᵇnruʔ, “animal track; claw”) seems to be the modern specialized form of 丑, which has been borrowed to represent an earthly branch.

As done by Sagart (1999), Baxter and Sagart (2014) put 杻 (OC *n̥<r>uʔ, “handcuffs”) and 狃 (OC *Cə.n<r>uʔ, “animal track; claw”) into the same word family as 手 (OC *n̥uʔ). Zhengzhang (1995) suggests a connection to Burmese ညှိုး (hnyui:, “forefinger”), which STEDT derives from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-njuŋ ~ *s-m-juŋ ~ *s-m-juw (“finger”).

Alternatively, Schuessler (2007) suggests a tone B endoactive derivation from 收 (OC *nhiu?, “to take; to gather”), literally “that which is doing the taking”.

手

1. hand (Classifier: 隻／只 m c mn; 雙／双 m mn; 對／对 c)
2. expert; master

   高手  ―  gāoshǒu  ―  master

3. -ist; -er

   歌手  ―  gēshǒu  ―  singer

4. convenient; handy; portable

   手機／手机  ―  shǒujī  ―  mobile phone

   手冊／手册  ―  shǒucè  ―  handbook

5. handwritten
6. Classifier for skills.
7. Classifier for transactions.
8. (Min Nan) luck in gambling
9. (Mainland China Hokkien) Classifier for Chinese characters.
10. (Taiwanese Hokkien) hidden part (general)
11. (finance) Classifier for stocks: lot

• 手掌 (shǒuzhǎng, “palm”)
• 手指 (shǒuzhǐ, “finger”)
• 手腕 (shǒuwàn, “wrist”)
• 胳膊 (gēbo, “arm”)

In many varieties of Chinese south of the Yangtze River, 手 (shǒu) refers to the arm and hand collectively.

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Go-on: しゅ (shu, Jōyō)^{←しゆ (syu, historical)}; す (su)
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū)^{←しう (siu, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: ず (zu)
• Kun: て (te, 手, Jōyō); た (ta, 手, Jōyō ^†)

• 上(じょう)手(ず) (jōzu)
• 四(し)手(で) (shide)
• 下(へ)手(た) (heta)

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *tay.

Possibly derived from a fusion of bound apophonic form 手 (ta) +‎ い (i, emphatic nominal particle). Compare 目 (ma → me, “eye”).

• (Tokyo) て​ [téꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1] as a noun
• IPA^(key): [te̞]

手(て) • (te) 

1. a hand

   リンゴを手(て)に持(も)つ

   ringo o te ni motsu

   to hold an apple in one's hand

   手(て)打(う)ちのモールス

   te-uchi no Mōrusu

   manually-keyed Morse code

2. a handle, grip
3. a paw, foreleg
4. a way of acting, means

   その手(て)があったか。

   Sono te ga atta ka.

   You could do it that way too?

   買(か)うのも一(ひと)つの手(て)である。

   Kau no mo hitotsu no te de aru.

   Another way is buying it.

5. (board games) a move, play
   • 2002 March 9, Hotta, Yumi; Obata, Takeshi, “第(だい)131(ひゃくさんじゅういち)局(きょく)　試(ため)される伊(い)角(すみ) [Game 131: Isumi’s Endeavor]”, in ヒカルの碁 [Hikaru’s Go], volume 16 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 54:

     まだそんな手(て)が残(のこ)ってた——投(とう)了(りょう)は早(はや)すぎた

     Mada sonna te ga nokotteta—— Tōryō wa hayasugita

     There’s still that move — I gave up too soon

手(て) • (te-) 

1. strengthens the prefixed adjective or adjectival noun

   手(て)早(ばや)い、手(て)堅(がた)い

   tebayai, tegatai

   quick, nimble; firm, steady

手(て) • (-te) 

1. one who does the previous word's action: -ist, -er

   語(かた)り手(て)

   katarite

   narrator

   使(つか)い手(て)

   tsukaite

   user

2. (board games) counter for moves in shogi, go, etc.

• 搦(から)め手(て) (karamete)

• 者(しゃ) (-sha)
• 屋(や) (-ya)

From Middle Chinese 手 (MC ɕɨuX).

手(しゅ) • (shu) 

1. hand
2. handwork
3. handicraft, skill, talent
4. one who does an action: -ist, -er

From Middle Chinese 手 (MC ɕɨuX).

• (hand; person; etc.):
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [sʰu]
  • Phonetic hangul: [수]
• (in 수건 (手巾, sugeon)):
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [sʰu(ː)]
  • Phonetic hangul: [수(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Wikisource 手 (eumhun 손 수 (son su))

1. Hanja form^? of 수 (“hand”).
2. Hanja form^? of 수 (“suffix related to one's skill or occupation”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

手

• Kun: てぃー (thī, 手)

• IPA^(key): /tʰiː/

手 (hiragana てぃー, romaji thī)

1. a hand

手

• Kun: てぃー (tī, 手)

• IPA^(key): /tiː/

手 (hiragana てぃー, romaji tī)

1. a hand

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Kun: てぃー (tī, 手)

• 下(ふぃ)手(た) (fita)

Cognate with Japanese 手 (te).

• (Shuri-Naha) てぃー [tìí] (Heiban - [0])
• IPA^(key): [tiː]

手 (hiragana てぃー, rōmaji tī)

1. a hand
2. a handle, grip
3. a skill, ability, means; especially in martial arts

手: Hán Việt readings: thủ (書(thư)九(cửu)切(thiết))[1][2][3]
手: Nôm readings: thủ[1][3][4][5]