Radical 64 or radical hand () meaning "hand" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes. When appearing as a left-side component, this radical is almost always written as (notable exceptions: , although Japanese shinjitai analogizes it to ; and dialectal characters 掰, 搿), while it becomes a vertically compressed 手 when appearing as a bottom component. In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 1203 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. is also the 80th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with being its associated indexing component. Evolution Derived characters Literature External links Unihan Database - U+624B 064 080