Characters in this word

4
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hand, (formal) to hold, person engaged in certain types of work, person skilled in certain types of work, personal(ly), convenient, classifier for skill, CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]

Pinyin
shǒu
Strokes
4
Frequency
490 of 2500
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to hold; to grasp, to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate, handlebar, classifier: handful, bundle, bunch, classifier for things with handles, (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb})

Pinyin
Strokes
7
Frequency
34 of 2500