手 shǒu

1. shǒu noun hand
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: As a part of the human body (Guoyu '手' n 1; Unihan '手'; XHZD '手' 1)
2. shǒu noun Kangxi radical 64
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7; Guoyu '手' n 6)
3. shǒu verb to hold in one's hand
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 拿 (XHZD '手' 2)
4. shǒu noun a skill; an ability
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 技能 (Guoyu '手' n 4; XHZD '手' 3)
5. shǒu adverb personally
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 亲手 (XHZD '手' 4)
6. shǒu bound form a person with skill
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: For example, 水手 sailor (Guoyu '手' n 2; XHZD '手' 5)
7. shǒu adjective convenient; portable
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '手' adj 3; XHZD '手' 6)
8. shǒu bound form a person doing an activity
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: For example, 助手 helper (Guoyu '手' n 3)
9. shǒu bound form a method; a technique
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 作法 (Guoyu '手' n 5)
10. shǒu bound form personally written
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: As in 手书 'writen personally' (Guoyu '手' adj)
11. shǒu adjective carried or handled by hand
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: For example, 手榴弹 grenade (Guoyu '手' adj 2)

Contained in

• 手闸(手閘) handbrake
• 纤手(纖手) delicate hands; woman's tender and soft hands
• 提手旁 name of Kangxi radical 64
• 剔手旁 name of Kangxi radical 64
• 笨手笨脚(笨手笨腳) clumsy; all thumbs
• 手忙脚乱(手忙腳亂) to act in a flustered and chaotic way
• 束手就毙(束手就斃) hands tied and expecting the worst
• 撒手人寰 to leave one's mortal frame; to die
• 手拉葫芦(手拉葫蘆) hand chain pulley block
• 龙龛手鉴(龍龕手鑑) Longkan Shoujian
• 手游(手遊) mobile game
• 国手(國手) member of the national team; national representative
• 拱手相让(拱手相讓) to bow and give way; to surrender something readily
• 指手划脚(指手劃腳) to gesticulate while talking; to explain by waving one's hands
• 鎗手 someone who takes an exam for someone else
• 七手八脚(七手八腳) with everyone lending a hand (eagerly but somewhat chaotically)
• 携手同行(攜手同行) to walk hand in hand; to cooperate
• 手腕子 wrist
• 火炬手 torchbearer; athlete carrying Olympic flame
• 心毒手辣 vicious and ruthless
• 妙手空空 petty thief ( quick fingered and vanish); empty-handed; having nothing
• 手套 gloves; mittens
• 白手起家 to build up from nothing; to start from scratch
• 缩手缩脚(縮手縮腳) bound hand and foot; constrained
• 手术(手術) surgical operation ; surgery
• 冠状动脉旁通手术(冠狀動脈旁通手術) coronary bypass operation
• 手钳(手鉗) manacles
• 转手(轉手) to pass on; to resell; to change hands
• 手无缚鸡之力(手無縛雞之力) lacking the strength even to truss a chicken; weak; unaccustomed to physical work
• 老手 experienced person; an old hand
• 手笔(手筆) something written or painted in one's own hand; skill; style; hand
• 今日长缨在手(今日長纓在手) with the long cord in hand today
• 剖腹产手术(剖腹產手術) Cesarean section operation
• 手札 personal letter
• 手滑 to do something by mistake (with one's hand); to make a slip of the hand (e.g. click the wrong button)
• 茭手 wild rice shoots
• 手足之情 brotherly affection
• 打手枪(打手槍) to masturbate
• 手到擒来(手到擒來) stretch a hand and grab it; very easy
• 顺手儿(順手兒) handy; convenient and easy to use; smoothly
• 捕手 catcher
• 侠盗猎车手(俠盜獵車手) Grand Theft Auto (video game series)
• 撒手闭眼(撒手閉眼) to have nothing further to do with a matter
• 强中自有强中手(強中自有強中手) however strong you are, there is always someone stronger; there is always something more to learn; never be satisfied to rest on your laurels
• 丢手(丟手) to wash one's hands of something; to have nothing further to do with sth
• 手写体(手寫體) handwriting
• 推手 promoter; advocate; driving force ; pushing hands
• 选手(選手) athlete; contestant
• 手足无措(手足無措) at a loss to know what to do; bewildered
• 帮手(幫手) helper; assistant

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Truncated for common words

• 《手部》 Shǒu Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 295
• 卷七十　　志第二十一: 　禮樂四 Volume 70 Treatises 23: Rites and Music 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 133
• 卷一百八十七 志第一百四十 兵一 Volume 187 Treatises 140: Military 1 History of Song 宋史 — count: 33
• 第七十六回 Chapter 76 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 28
• 卷一百九十一 志第一百四十四 兵五 Volume 191 Treatises 144: Military 5 History of Song 宋史 — count: 25
• 卷七十六　志第二十七上: 祭祀五 Volume 76 Treatises 29: Offerings 5 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 24
• 卷七十三　志第二十四: 　祭祀二 Volume 73 Treatises 26: Offerings 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 21
• 卷一百八十八 志第一百四十一 兵二 Volume 188 Treatises 141: Military 2 History of Song 宋史 — count: 20
• 卷一百七十七 志第一百三十 食貨上五 Volume 177 Treatises 130: Finance and Economics 1e History of Song 宋史 — count: 20
• 第二十四回 Chapter 24 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 17

Collocations

• 捝手 (挩手) 坐挩手 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 鄉飲酒禮 第四 4. Rites of the district symposium — count: 10
• 手曰 (手曰) 有文在其手曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 閔公 Lord Min — count: 9
• 死人手 (死人手) 然而身死人手 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十三　氾論訓 Chapter 13: Overflowing Discussions — count: 8
• 覆手 (覆手) 君未覆手 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《玉藻》 The Jade-Bead Pendants of the Royal Cap — count: 6
• 子手 (子手) 曹子手劍而從之 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 5
• 拊手 (拊手) 已而笑拊手且歌 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷六 復恩 Chapter 6: Repaying Kindness — count: 4
• 不以手 (不以手) 羹不以手 — Guanzi 管子, 弟子職第五十九 Chapter 59: Duties of a Disciple — count: 4
• 不知手 (不知手) 不知手之舞之 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 序 Preface — count: 4
• 手搏 (手搏) 中行繆伯手搏虎 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十　繆稱訓 Chapter 10: Solemn Precepts — count: 3
• 手及 (手及) 而矢貫余手及肘 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 3