掌
zhǎng HSK5

palm of hand

掌 zhǎng
palm noun
palm of the hand, sole of the foot, or an animal's paw

他伸出右掌，示意正在喧哗的众人安静下来。

tā shēn​chū yòu zhǎng, shì​yì zhèng​zài xuān​huá de zhòng​rén ān​jìng xià​lai.

He held out his palm, signaling the noisy crowd to be quiet.

horseshoe noun
a horseshoe or a leather patch added to a shoe sole

这匹马需要重新钉掌了。

zhè pǐ mǎ xū​yào chóng​xīn dìng zhǎng le.

This horse needs to be reshod.

slap verb
to strike someone or something with the palm of the hand

他气得真想掌他的嘴。

tā qì de zhēn xiǎng zhǎng tā de zuǐ.

He was so angry he wanted to slap him across the face.

wield verb
to hold in one's hand, to manage, or to be in charge of power or authority

他在这个大家庭里掌大权，全家人都听他的。

tā zài zhè​ge dà jiā​tíng lǐ zhǎng dà​quán, quán jiā​rén dōu tīng tā de.

He holds the power in this large family, and everyone listens to him.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)