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手 shǒu — “hand”

How to write and say the Chinese character 手 (shǒu), which means hand — with stroke order, audio, its story, and an example sentence. Theme: Me & my body.

Stroke order笔顺

手 is written with 4 strokes, in this order (the red stroke is the one being added):

The story behind it字源小故事

A little picture: a hand with the fingers splayed.

A common word常用词

Example sentence例句

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