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hand   

Explanation A hand with the forearm at the right and fingers stretched out to the left.

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 1
to have, there is, there are, to exist, to be
yǒu
Top left: hand / (The fingers are left and at the right the forearm.), below: body /
I have a hand and a body: I'm existing!
JLPT HSK 1
friend
yǒu
Comprises twice a radical for hand: , as shaking hands
They shake hands because they are friends.
JLPT HSK 2
affair, matter, thing, item, work
shì
From top: ten , mouth , hand /
Keep ten mouths shut with one hand: what an affair!
JLPT HSK 2
left, unorthodox
zuǒ
Left: hand /, right: build, work (image of a carpenter's square)
The hand that assists, (=supports with the carpenter's square) is the left.
JLPT HSK 2
right side, on the right
yòu
Top: hand /, below: mouth
The hand for the mouth (= You eat with it.), is your right.
JLPT HSK 2
snow, snowfall
xuě
Top: rain (= window with cloud and drops ), below: hand /ヨ
Rain that you can hold in your hand is: snow.
JLPT HSK 2
wife, to marry off (a daughter)
qī, qì
From top: ten , hand /, woman
(very hardworking) The ten-handed woman: that's my wife.
JLPT HSK 3
urgent, pressing, rapid, hurried

From top: inflected person , hand /, heart
The inflected person holds the hand to the heart, because he was in an urgent hurry. (and now is exhausted)
JLPT HSK 3
to act as, match equally, suitable, adequate
dāng, dàng
Top: small , bottom: hand /
Even a small hand acts as such.
JLPT HSK 4
dispute, to strive for, to argue or debate
zhēng
Top: bent person , below: hand /, stick
The bent person with a stick in his hand is looking for a dispute.
JLPT HSK 4
father

A hand with a stick
The father has a stick in his hand (for punishing).
JLPT HSK 4
sugar, sweets, candy
táng
广
Left: rice , right: Tang dynasty 唐 (In the building 广 the hand with pestle and mortar during Tang)
You use rice in a building to squeeze it with a pestle in a hand and a mortar to get: sugar.
JLPT HSK 5
diary, record, to hit, to copy

Top: hand , bottom: liquid (Compare with: green 绿 where a hand / squeezes fiber 纟 and green liquid drops down.)
When the hand squeezes out a liquid this means: 'diary' or 'keeping records'.
JLPT HSK 5
married woman

Left: woman , right: hand / (traditional: 婦 with a broom in the hand)
The woman who gave her hand, is a married woman.
JLPT HSK 5
to go back, to return, to resign, conclude
guī
Left: knife , right: hand /; simplified from 帰 or 歸. Showed originally a man with a sword who returns to his wife (=hand with broom)
When the man with a sword is at his wife 妇 (today: hand without broom) he has returned.
JLPT HSK 5
spirit, departed soul, quick, alert, efficacious, effective
líng
Top: hand /, below: fire
Just as the hand cannot grasp fire, it is with the spirit.
JLPT HSK 5
intelligent, wisdom, knowledge
huì
Top: comet (It does not fall into your hands /: The comet), bottom: heart
If you make double wings from inverted wings with your hands and you have a heart, you are intelligent.
JLPT HSK 5
to search, to look for, to seek
xún
Top: hand /, below: skillful hand
Use both hands for searching.
JLPT HSK 5
file, shelve, official records, grade (of goods)
dàng
Left: tree , right: act as 当 (Also a small hand / acts as such.)
A tree can also act as a file or shelve.
JLPT HSK 5
cloth, to declare, to announce

Left: hand , right: cloth
The hand is holding a cloth.
JLPT HSK 5
keep off, to resist, obstruct hinder, to block
dǎng, dàng
Left: hand , right: 当 (=small hand /)
With a hand, a small hand is kept off.
JLPT HSK 5
modest, humble
qiān
Left: word /, right: twice, combined (a hand holding two rice plants )
His words about the (many) rice plants in his hand, were modest and humble.
JLPT HSK 5
dyke, embankment, pool or pond, hot-water bathing pool
táng
广
Left: earth , right: Tang dynasty 唐 (In the building 广 the hand with pestle and mortar during Tang)
If by earth a "building" is made by hand as a surrounding mouth, it is a: dyke (embarkment) for a pond.
JLPT HSK 6
ordinary, to use (often negative)
yōng
广
Outside: building 广, below: hand , holding a pestle , combined with use
When in a building a hand uses a pestle, it is very ordinary.
JLPT HSK 6
concealed, secret, hidden, crypto-...
yǐn
Left: hill , right: urgent/hurry (The bent person holds hand / to heart , because he was in hurry (and now is exhausted)
He used the hill, for urgently hiding and concealing it.
JLPT HSK 6
to exaggerate, empty, in vain, Tang-Dynasty
táng
广
Outside: building 广, below: hand 肀, with pestle , mortar
Buildings in which a hand uses a mortar were exaggerated in Tang China???
JLPT HSK 6
sad, mournful, ice-cold frigid, dismal, grim, bleak

Left: ice , right: wife 妻 (The ten -handed woman is my [hardworking] wife.)
My ice-cold wife makes me: sad.
JLPT HSK 6
to immerse, to soak, to steep, gradually
jìn
Left: water , right: var. of a hand holding a broom
The water in the broom gets soaked up.
JLPT no HSK
to grasp, to hold, to maintain
bǐng
Rice plant and hand
The rice plant has (by the hand) been grasped.
JLPT no HSK
to administer, to oversee, to run, magistrate (old)
yǐn
丿
Hand or with stick
With a stick in your hand, you: administer.
JLPT no HSK
age, 7th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 十天干
gēng
广
Left: building 广, right: hand , person
In the building, a hand grasps a person with the question of: his age.
JLPT no HSK
he, she, abbr. for Iraq or Iran

Left: person , right: to administer, rule (.. with a stick in the hand you administer)
The person with the stick in his hand point to him/her.
JLPT no HSK
comet
huì
Top: vari. of not (shows opposite wings ), bottom: hand /
It does not fall into your hands: The comet.
JLPT no HSK
persist, continue (as a song)
gēng
广
Top: age, 7th Heavenly Stems 庚 (In the building 广 a hand grasps a person with the question of: his age), bottom: money /貝
If there are in the building three working (=they have hands) people with money, they can stay/persist (=continue)

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