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手指 (shǒu zhǐ): meaning and stroke order

手指 (shǒu zhǐ) means finger, 个只.

手指

Simplified
手指
Traditional
手指 (same form)
Pinyin
shǒu zhǐ

Stroke order of 手指

手

  • shǒu hand; (formal) to hold
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

指

  • zhǐ finger; to point at or to
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 手指

  1. shǒu zhǐ
    • finger
    • CL:個|个[ge4],隻|只[zhi1]

Radicals of the characters

手
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 4 strokes
指
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 9 strokes · 扌 on the left, 旨 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

手指 in our stories

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  • 他们在最后一丝天光消失前，看到了营地的帐篷。玛尔塔被直升机送到了加德满都的医院，保住了性命，却失去了三根手指。

    tāmen zài zuìhòu yì sī tiānguāng xiāoshī qián kàndào le yíngdì de zhàngpeng Mǎ'ěrtǎ bèi zhíshēngjī sòng dào le Jiādémǎndū de yīyuàn bǎozhù le xìngmìng què shīqù le sān gēn shǒuzhǐ

    Before the last glimmer of daylight faded they saw the tents of the camp. Marta was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Kathmandu; her life was saved, though she lost three fingers.

    From the story Two hundred metres from the summit HSK 7–9 · Level 9

  • 调解室里安静了很久。贝女士低着头，手指在杯子上转来转去，半天才说：“我不知道这些。”

    tiáojiěshì lǐ ānjìng le hěn jiǔ Bèi nǚshì dī zhe tóu shǒuzhǐ zài bēizi shàng zhuàn lái zhuàn qù bàntiān cái shuō wǒ bù zhīdao zhèxiē

    The mediation room was quiet for a long time. Ms Bei kept her head down, turning her fingers round and round the cup, and after a long while said: "I didn't know any of this."

    From the story The persimmon tree over the wall HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 手指

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).