掌
palm of the hand; sole of the foot; paw; horseshoe; to slap; to hold in one's hand; to wield
12 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,080 U+638C
How 掌 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
手 (semantic, “hand”) + 尚 (phonetic, shàng)
How to remember it
palm of the hand · Heisig RSH #1956
outhouse + 手 hand
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 尚
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 尚 (shàng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尚 sound component | shàng | still, yet; even; fairly, rather |
| 常 | cháng | common, general, normal; always, frequently, regularly |
| 党 | dǎng | political party, gang, faction |
| 堂 | táng | hall, large room; government office; cousins |
| 赏 | shǎng | reward; to appreciate; to bestow, to grant |
| 尝 | cháng | to taste; to experience, to experiment with |
| 躺 | tǎng | to recline, to lie down |
| 敞 | chǎng | wide, open, spacious |
| 棠 | táng | crabapple tree; wild plum |
| 趟 | tàng | time, occasion; to make a journey |
| 倘 | tǎng | if, supposing, in event of |
| 淌 | tǎng | to trickle down, to flow, to drip; to shed tears |
| 裳 | cháng | skirt, petticoat; beautiful |
| 惝 | chǎng | alarmed, agitated |
| 徜 | cháng | to linger, to walk back and forth |
| 绱 | shàng | the sole of a shoe; to patch, to sole |
| 䠀 | chǎng | to meditate; to sit cross-legged |
| 牚 | chēng | variant of 撐|撑[cheng1] |
Words containing 掌
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 长掌义县龙 | cháng zhǎng Yì xiàn lóng | Yixianosaurus longimanus, theropod dinosaur from Yi county 義縣|义县, Jinzhou 錦州|锦州, west Liao… |
| 掌子面 | zhǎng zi miàn | face (mining) |
| 手掌心 | shǒu zhǎng xīn | see 手心[shou3 xin1] |
| 掌上电脑 | zhǎng shàng diàn nǎo | handheld computer; PDA (personal digital assistant); Pocket PC |
| 掌门人 | zhǎng mén rén | (wuxia) sect leader; (fig.) person in charge; head; leader; proprietor |
| 如来佛的掌心 | Rú lái fó de zhǎng xīn | the palm of the Buddha's hand (a metaphor for a higher authority or force from whose contr… |
| 掌声雷动 | zhǎng shēng léi dòng | thunderous applause (idiom) |
| 易如反掌 | yì rú fǎn zhǎng | easy as a hand's turn (idiom); very easy; no effort at all |
| 掌上明珠 | zhǎng shàng míng zhū | lit. a pearl in the palm (idiom); fig. beloved person (esp. daughter) |
| 了如指掌 | liǎo rú zhǐ zhǎng | to know sth like the back of one's hand (idiom); to know (a person, a place etc) inside ou… |
| 了如指掌 | liǎo rú zhǐ zhǎng | variant of 了如指掌[liao3 ru2 zhi3 zhang3] |
| 易于反掌 | yì yú fǎn zhǎng | see 易如反掌[yi4 ru2 fan3 zhang3] |
| 掌上压 | zhǎng shàng yā | (HK, Malaysia) push-up; press-up (exercise) |
| 仙人掌果 | xiān rén zhǎng guǒ | prickly pear |
| 一个巴掌拍不响 | yī ge bā zhǎng pāi bù xiǎng | lit. one palm alone cannot clap (proverb); fig. it takes two persons to start a dispute; i… |
| 掌心 | zhǎng xīn | hollow of the palm |
| 马掌 | mǎ zhǎng | the cutin skin of a horse's hoof; horseshoe |
| 掌机 | zhǎng jī | handheld game console |
| 手掌 | shǒu zhǎng | palm |
| 主掌 | zhǔ zhǎng | in charge (of a position etc); the person in charge; responsible |