Measure word
- 把 bǎ to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle... attested
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
手
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
枪
These are the forms of 鎗, the traditional character: 枪 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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千万别相信一个手里拿手枪的女人。
Never trust a woman with a pistol in hand.
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我把我的手枪指向了目标。
I aimed my gun at the target.