hand

Builds 139 distinct compound words — ranked #10 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: シュ
訓 kun: て・た

The hand, and then the person who uses it — 選手 an athlete, 歌手 a singer. Also a means or a move: 手段 a method.

The ten most common compounds built on 手. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

139compounds built

4,116times those words occur

#10by productivity alone

#23by how often it turns up

Where 手 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 手. Each one opens its own map.

上above; up上手い、上手#16 切cut; earnest切手#51

Words built on 手

手紙てがみ822 uses

手て389 uses

手伝うてつだう380 uses

上手いうまい344 uses

上手じょうず334 uses

歌手かしゅ137 uses

相手あいて134 uses

選手せんしゅ127 uses

切手きって81 uses 手段しゅだん78 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.