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手 — stroke order
Watch how to write 手 (shǒu) stroke by stroke. 手 has 4 strokes and means “hand”. It appears in common words such as 手機 (cell phone) and 分手 (to split up). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 手
The most common words that use 手 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
手機shǒujīcell phone分手fēnshǒuto split up手氣shǒuqìluck射手shèshǒubowman高手gāoshǒuexpert拉手lāshǒuto hold hands
How 手 is written
- Radical
- 手
- Formation
- Pictographic — A hand with the fingers splayed.