手刹
shǒu​shā

handbrake

手 shǒu, shou hand

Pictograph of a hand.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Meaning (8 of 23 verified)

举拿掌摩拳攀摹挚擎挛掣掰挈挲搿擘搴舉掱擊攣拏摯

Iconic (2)

承拜

Deleted (1)

击

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartsyuwXn̥uʔ hand

說文解字

《說文》：“手，拳也。象形。，古文手。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.844
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

刹 shā, chà temple Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 杀 represents the sound. Simplified form of 剎.

Components

刂
刂 Meaning component
dāo knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

杀
杀 Sound component
shā kill

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsʰraːd

說文解字

柱也。从刀，未詳。殺省聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

剎 shā, chà temple Traditional

Components

杀
杀 Sound component
shā kill
刂
刂 Meaning component
dāo knife

knife

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsʰraːd

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica