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掌 — 12 strokes ／ Radical「手」

道
3Junior high level ／ 12 strokes ／ Radical「手」
On
ショウしょう · shō
Kun
てのひら・たなごころtenohira · tanagokoro
Meaning
palm; administer

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

With 手 "hand": the palm — hence to administer.

OFFICIAL READINGS

Readings and examples

Onショウしょうshō掌中しょうちゅう職掌しょくしょう車掌しゃしょう

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 車掌しゃしょう

    conductor (train)

  • 掌握しょうあく

    grasp; control

More words with this kanji

  • 拊掌ふしょう
  • 鞅掌おうしょう

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

車掌(しゃしょう)が切符(きっぷ)を確(たし)かめた。

The conductor checked the tickets.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

掌握車掌掌握grip車car手hand折to fol…承to rec…挘to plu…拿to sei…匠artisa…昇rise晶crysta…焦char摂take…
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 手Map of reading ショウAll maps

Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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