掌 (Kangxi radical 64,手+8, 12 strokes,cangjie input火月口手 (FBRQ),four-corner9050₂,composition⿱𫩠手 or⿱龸𠰅)

• 𰂱,撑

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 437, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12248
• Dae Jaweon: page 786, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1889, character 2
• Unihan data for U+638C

Historical forms of the character掌
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)	Liushutong (compiled inMing)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*tjaŋʔ): phonetic 尚(OC*djaŋ, *djaŋs) + semantic 手.

掌

1. palm ofhand

   鼓掌  ― gǔzhǎng  ―  to clap

2. (Min)finger
3. sole offoot
4. shoesole orheel
5. horseshoe
6. toslap
7. tohold

   掌旗  ― zhǎng qí  ―  to hold a flag

8. tocontrol
9. (dialectal Mandarin) toput (seasoning)
10. (Sichuanese) tosupport; tohold
11. (Hakka, Teochew) towatch over; tolook after

• → Mongolian:зан(zan,“sole”)

(Jōyō kanji)

1. palm of thehand
2. manipulate
3. rule;administer

• Go-on:しょう(shō,Jōyō)^{←しやう(syau,historical)}
• Kan-on:しょう(shō,Jōyō)^{←しやう(syau,historical)}
• Kun:てのひら(tenohira,掌)、たなごころ(tanagokoro,掌)、たなそこ(tanasoko,掌)、つかさどる(tsukasadoru,掌る)

• 掌(しょう)握(あく)(shōaku)
• 掌(しょう)鞅(おう)(shōō)
• 掌(しょう)管(かん)(shōkan)
• 掌(しょう)故(こ)(shōko)
• 掌中(しょうちゅう)(shōchū)
• 掌(しょう)典(てん)(shōten)

From手(て)(te,“hand”) +の(no,“-'s”) +平(ひら)(hira,“flat”). CompareEnglishflat of one's hand.

• (Tokyo)てのひら[tènóꜜhìrà] (Nakadaka – [2])^[1][2][3]
• (Tokyo)てのひら[téꜜnòhìrà] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1][2][3]
• IPA^(key): [te̞no̞çiɾa̠]

掌(てのひら)• (te-no-hira) 

1. (anatomy) apalm

From手(た)(ta-,“hand”) +な(na,“-'s”,archaic) +裏(うら)(ura,“hidden side”).

掌(たなうら)• (tanaura) 

1. (anatomy) apalm

From手(た)(ta-,“hand”) +な(na,“-'s”,archaic) +心(こころ)(kokoro,“heart;inside”,rendaku form心(ごころ)(gokoro)).

• (Tokyo)たなごころ[tànágóꜜkòrò] (Nakadaka – [3])^[1][2][3]
• (Tokyo)たなごころ[tànágókóró] (Heiban – [0])^[1][2][3]
• (Tokyo)たなごころ[tànágókóróꜜ] (Odaka – [5])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [ta̠na̠ɡo̞ko̞ɾo̞]

掌(たなごころ)• (tanagokoro) 

1. (anatomy) apalm

FromMiddle Chinese掌 (MC tsyangX).

掌(しょう)• (-shō) ^{←しやう(-syau)?}

1. (martial arts)used in the names of moves that involve hitting and pushing hard with the palm

   条(じゅう)拳(けん)法(ぽう)　八(はっ)卦(け)六(ろく)十(じゅう)四(よん)掌(しょう)

   Jūkenpō Hakke Rokujūyonshō

   Jūkenpō:Eight Trigrams, Sixty-Four Palms

   • 2003 September 22,Akinobu Uraku, “第(だい)60話(わ)　少(しょう)女(じょ)の決(けつ)意(い) [Chapter 60: A Girl’s Resolve]”, in東(とう)京(きょう)アンダーグラウンド [Tokyo Underground], volume11 (fiction),Square Enix,→ISBN, pages30–31:

     これがこの赤(セキ)を師(スー)兵(ペイ)の頂(ちょう)点(てん)たらしめる炎(ほのお)だッ!!!我(が)龍(りゅう)双(そう)煉(れん)掌(しょう)

     Kore ga kono Seki o Sūpei no chōten tarashimeru honō da'!!! Garyū Sōrenshō

     This is the flame that helped put me, Seki, at the top of the Supei!!! Garyū Sōrenshō

• “^△掌”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2025

FromMiddle Chinese掌 (MC tsyangX). Recorded asMiddle Korean쟈ᇰ〯(cyǎng) (Yale:cyang) inHunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

KoreanWikisource has texts containing thehanja:

掌

掌 (eumhun손바닥장(sonbadak jang))

1. hanja form^? of장(“palmofthehand”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary,전자사전／電子字典.[2]

掌:Hán Nôm readings:chưởng

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