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手

手 is a Japanese kanji written with 4 strokes, listed here under the keyword “hand”. It is treated as a basic building block: it is not broken down any further here. In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 687. It appears as a component in 9 other characters in this index.

Keyword
hand
RTK frame
687
Strokes
4
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
シュ, ズ
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
て, て-, -て, た-
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
рука
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
手 hand

Decomposition

No decomposition is listed: this shape is used whole.

Characters that contain 手

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