Kanji1 / 4
手 kanji
hand
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
シュズ
Kun readings
てて--てた-
Words with 手
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —馬手stable boy; stable hand; groom
- —手杖staff (esp. one used by a monk, e.g. as a walking stick during a pilgrimage)
- —手骨bones of the hand
- —転手tuning peg (on a biwa or shamisen)
- —手脚hands and feet
- —対手opponent (in combat)
- —手冊notebook; memo pad
- —手稿manuscript
- —関手functor
- —手浴hand bath (for improving blood circulation)
- —搩手distance between the thumb and middle finger of an extended hand
- —屠手slaughterer; butcher
- —導手conductor (class field theory)
- —手札handwritten letter; mail; correspondence; business card; nameplate
- —鬼手unusual move that catches the opponent by surprise (in go, shogi, etc.)
- —俗手bad move (especially ones played by beginners)
- —銃手gunner; shooter; rifleman
- —一塁手first baseman
- —下手人offender (esp. murderer); criminal
- —金剛手Vajrapani; wielder of the vajra