noun

Meanings

  1. 1 a handful; a pinch (archaic)
  2. 2 ancient Shang weight unit (classical)

Examples

Tā qīngqīng lǚ le lǚ húzi.
He gently stroked his beard a few times.

Tips

history
is not used independently in modern Chinese. It depicts fingers picking up a small thing and survives only as the phonetic and meaning core of (to stroke / strip off by hand) and the related family of bronze-inscription forms. In Shang bronze texts it also named a unit of weight.
register
Archaic and classical only. You will meet in palaeography and etymology notes, never in modern writing or speech.

Components

ideograph
a handful; a pinch
Treated as a single unit: a clawing hand over a hand-with-thumb , picturing fingers pinching up a small object. Indexed under Kangxi radical by tradition. The whole graph is the phonetic in .

Filed under radical (cùn) by convention. is not a separate component in , so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order