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扌

tíshǒupáng
radical_variant

Meanings

  1. 1 side hand radical (variant of 手)
  2. 2 left form of the hand radical, Kangxi #64

Tips

usage
扌 on the left is one of the most reliable verb-of-physical-action signals in Chinese — holding, hitting, pushing, pulling, grabbing. It is the hand radical 手 squeezed to a slim three-stroke column so a phonetic can occupy the right half. Never appears as a standalone character.
history
扌 is the calligraphic compression of 手. The standalone pictograph shows splayed fingers and an arm; in side-position the fingers fuse into a top hook and the arm becomes a single vertical with one cross-tick, a brush gesture much faster to write yet still visually "hand-shaped".
usage
Hand-action cue: 打 (hit), 拿 (take / hold), 推 (push), 拉 (pull), 找 (search), 接 (receive), 把 (hold / object marker), 报 (report).

Stroke Order

扌 tíshǒupáng