趁手 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

chènshǒu

conveniently

chèn take advantage of

Components

走 Meaning component

zǒu walk

walk

㐱 Sound component

zhěn thick hair

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		nlanʔ
		l̥ʰɯns
		l'ɯn
Unicode	tjìn

說文解字

𧾍也。从走㐱聲。讀若塵。

Sources

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

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

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Component uses

Meaning (8 of 23 verified)

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	syuwX	n̥uʔ	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)