掌
zhǎng HSK5

palm of hand

掌 zhǎng
to be in charge verbnoun
to hold; to wield power; to be in charge of; to manage
palm noun
(bound form) palm of the hand; sole of the foot; paw of an animal
to slap noun
to slap with the palm of the hand
sole
(bound form) shoe sole or heel; horseshoe; a protective layer nailed or sewn onto the bottom of a shoe
to hold
to hold in one's hand, such as a lantern or a flag
[strike]
classifier for strikes with the palm of the hand, often used in martial arts
to add
(dialect) to add or put in, such as salt or oil into food
surname
a Chinese surname

Frequency
Character
Written text
890th most common 195.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,059th most common 93.3 per million appears in 38% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
25.8 per million appears in 11% of films
Written text
41.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+638C

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)