KANAE
Character · The body

手

て teじょうず jōzuてがみ tegamiへた heta

hand

Composition

1234

Origin

Pictogram of an open hand, palm and five stylized fingers.

In the thoughts

  1. 上手jōzuskilled person
  2. 手紙tegamiletter
  3. 下手hetaunskilled
  4. 手前temaeone's own
  5. 手習いtenaraicalligraphy practice
  6. 衣手koromodesleeves

Proverbs carrying this character

  1. 011 Even skilled hands let water slip through.
  2. 013 What one loves, one will do well.
  3. 110 Snow is a letter sent from the sky.
  4. 129 Unskilled, but devoted.
  5. 223 Don't swat it! The fly wrings its hands, wrings its feet.
  6. 226 What happiness, crossing the summer river, sandals in hand!
  7. 255 Praising one's own miso.
  8. 256 One would even borrow the cat's paws.
  9. 272 Learning calligraphy at sixty.
  10. 279 Skilled of tongue, skilled of hand.
  11. 293 In the harvest-watch hut by the autumn fields, its rush roof loose, my sleeves grow wet with dew.

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