手 Radical 64 — hand

Where the shape comes from

An open hand held up: the three horizontal strokes are the fingers, the hooked vertical the arm and wrist. On the left of a character it is written 扌 and marks actions the hands perform — 打, 拿, 找, 排.

characters filed under 手

• 手shǒu (third tone, dipping)hand; a person good at something (歌手 a singer, 选手 a contestant)4
• 找zhǎo (third tone, dipping)to look for, to seek; to call on somebody; to give change7
• 拿ná (second tone, rising)to take, to hold, to pick up; to seize, to capture; with, using (as a preposition)10
• 换/換huàn (fourth tone, falling)to exchange, to swap, to trade; to change, to replace; to change (money, clothes, trains)10