掌

掌 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 火月口手 (FBRQ), four-corner 9050₂, composition ⿱𫩠手 or ⿱龸𠰅)

• 𰂱, 撑

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 437, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12248
• Dae Jaweon: page 786, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1889, character 2
• Unihan data for U+638C

Historical forms of the character 掌
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjaŋʔ) : phonetic 尚 (OC *djaŋ, *djaŋs) + semantic 手.

掌

1. palm of hand

   鼓掌  ―  gǔzhǎng  ―  to clap

2. (Min) finger
3. sole of foot
4. shoe sole or heel
5. horseshoe
6. to slap
7. to hold

   掌旗  ―  zhǎng qí  ―  to hold a flag

8. to control
9. (dialectal Mandarin) to put (seasoning)
10. (Sichuanese) to support; to hold
11. (Hakka, Teochew) to watch over; to look after

• → Mongolian: зан (zan, “sole”)

(Jōyō kanji)

1. palm of the hand
2. manipulate
3. rule; administer

• Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kun: てのひら (tenohira, 掌)、たなごころ (tanagokoro, 掌)、たなそこ (tanasoko, 掌)、つかさどる (tsukasadoru, 掌る)

• 掌(しょう)握(あく) (shōaku)
• 掌(しょう)鞅(おう) (shōō)
• 掌(しょう)管(かん) (shōkan)
• 掌(しょう)故(こ) (shōko)
• 掌中(しょうちゅう) (shōchū)
• 掌(しょう)典(てん) (shōten)

From 手(て) (te, “hand”) + の (no, “-'s”) + 平(ひら) (hira, “flat”). Compare English flat of one's hand.

• (Tokyo) てのひら [tènóꜜhìrà] (Nakadaka – [2])^[1][2][3]
• (Tokyo) てのひら [téꜜnòhìrà] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1][2][3]
• IPA^(key): [te̞no̞çiɾa̠]

掌(てのひら) • (te-no-hira) 

1. (anatomy) a palm

From 手(た) (ta-, “hand”) + な (na, “-'s”, archaic) + 裏(うら) (ura, “hidden side”).

掌(たなうら) • (tanaura) 

1. (anatomy) a palm

From 手(た) (ta-, “hand”) + な (na, “-'s”, archaic) + 心(こころ) (kokoro, “heart; inside”, rendaku form 心(ごころ) (gokoro)).

• (Tokyo) たなごころ [tànágóꜜkòrò] (Nakadaka – [3])^[1][2][3]
• (Tokyo) たなごころ [tànágókóró] (Heiban – [0])^[1][2][3]
• (Tokyo) たなごころ [tànágókóróꜜ] (Odaka – [5])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [ta̠na̠ɡo̞ko̞ɾo̞]

掌(たなごころ) • (tanagokoro) 

1. (anatomy) a palm

From Middle Chinese 掌 (MC tsyangX).

掌(しょう) • (-shō) ^{←しやう (-syau)?}

1. (martial arts) used in the names of moves that involve hitting and pushing hard with the palm

   条(じゅう)拳(けん)法(ぽう)　八(はっ)卦(け)六(ろく)十(じゅう)四(よん)掌(しょう)

   Jūkenpō Hakke Rokujūyonshō

   Jūkenpō: Eight Trigrams, Sixty-Four Palms

   • 2003 September 22, Akinobu Uraku, “第(だい)60話(わ)　少(しょう)女(じょ)の決(けつ)意(い) [Chapter 60: A Girl’s Resolve]”, in 東(とう)京(きょう)アンダーグラウンド [Tokyo Underground], volume 11 (fiction), Square Enix, →ISBN, pages 30–31:

     これがこの赤(セキ)を師(スー)兵(ペイ)の頂(ちょう)点(てん)たらしめる炎(ほのお)だッ!!!我(が)龍(りゅう)双(そう)煉(れん)掌(しょう)

     Kore ga kono Seki o Sūpei no chōten tarashimeru honō da'!!! Garyū Sōrenshō

     This is the flame that helped put me, Seki, at the top of the Supei!!! Garyū Sōrenshō

From Middle Chinese 掌 (MC tsyangX). Recorded as Middle Korean 쟈ᇰ〯 (cyǎng) (Yale: cyang) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

掌

Wikisource

掌 (eumhun 손바닥 장 (sonbadak jang))

1. hanja form^? of 장 (“palm of the hand”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

掌: Hán Nôm readings: chưởng

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