Kanji1 / 12
掌 kanji
palm of hand, rule, administer, conduct
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ショウ
Kun readings
てのひらたなごころ
Words with 掌
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —掌上palm of one's hand; one's hand
- —八卦掌eight trigrams palm; ba gua zhang; pa kua chang
- —観掌術palmistry
- —指掌紋hand print
- —掌中本pocket edition
- —車掌区conductors' station (office)
- —車掌室conductor's compartment
- —合掌組triangular frame of a thatched roof
- —車掌車caboose; guard's van; brake van
- —仙人掌cactus
- —掌状脈palmate venation (of a leaf); palmate vein
- —掌中の珠apple of one's eye; one's jewel
- —合掌造りtraditional style of Japanese architecture with a steep thatched roof
- —掌篇小説short short story
- —合掌礼拝join one's hands in prayer; pray with (the palms of) one's hands together
- —瞑目合掌closing one's eyes and joining one's hands together in prayer
- —合掌捻りclasped-hand twist down
- —所掌事務scope of affairs under the jurisdiction
- —業務分掌division of administrative responsibilities
- —掌状複葉palmate compound leaf