手指

Chinese

Pronunciation 1
hand; convenient; ‑er
 
finger; to point; to direct
finger; to point; to direct; to indicate
trad. (手指) 手 指
simp. #(手指) 手 指

手指

Noun

手指

  1. (anatomy) finger (Classifier: 根 m; 隻／只 m c)
    交叉手指  ―  jiāochā shǒuzhǐ  ―  to cross one's fingers
    請切勿將手指伸入籠中。 [MSC, trad.]
    请切勿将手指伸入笼中。 [MSC, simp.]
    Qǐng qièwù jiāng shǒuzhǐ shēnrù lóng zhōng. [Pinyin]
    Please do not poke your fingers through the cage.
  2. (Hong Kong Cantonese, informal) flash drive; thumb drive (Classifier: 隻／只 c)
Synonyms
  • (finger): (literary, or in compounds) 指 (zhǐ)
Dialectal synonyms of 手指 (“finger”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 指
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 手指
Mandarin Beijing 手指頭
Taiwan 手指, 手指頭
Hulunbuir (Hailar) 手指頭
Harbin 手指頭
Shenyang 手指頭
Yantai (Muping) 手指頭兒, 指頭
Jinan 手指頭, 手指
Luoyang 指頭
Wanrong 手圪頭
Zhengzhou 手指頭
Xi'an 手指頭, 指頭
Yinchuan 指頭
Lanzhou 手指頭
Xining 手指頭
Ürümqi 手指頭
Wuhan 指甲
Huanggang 指丫兒
Chengdu 手指拇兒, 手指
Guiyang 手指頭
Kunming 手指頭
Guilin 指媽
Liuzhou 手指頭, 手指
Xuzhou 手指頭, 手指
Yangzhou 麻則, 手則頭, 則頭
Nanjing 手指抹頭, 手指頭
Hefei 末爪頭, 末爪頭子, 手爪子
Nantong 手爪兒, 手折頭, 手折末頭兒
Singapore 手指
Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan) 指頭
Cantonese Guangzhou 手指
Hong Kong 手指
Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou) 手指
Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou) 手指
Hong Kong (Ting Kok) 手指
Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau) 手指
Macau 手指
Guangzhou (Panyu) 手指
Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu) 手指
Guangzhou (Conghua) 手指頭
Guangzhou (Zengcheng) 手指
Foshan 手指
Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai) 手指
Foshan (Shunde) 手指
Foshan (Sanshui) 手指
Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming) 手指
Zhongshan (Shiqi) 手指
Zhuhai (Qianshan) 手指
Zhuhai (Doumen, Shangheng Tanka) 手指
Zhuhai (Doumen) 手指
Jiangmen (Baisha) 手指
Jiangmen (Xinhui) 手指
Taishan 手指, 手仔
Kaiping (Chikan) 手指
Enping (Niujiang) 手指
Heshan (Yayao) 手指
Dongguan 手指
Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an) 手指
Shenzhen (Dapeng) 手指
Shaoguan 手指
Yunfu 手指
Yangjiang 手指
Xinyi 手指
Lianjiang 手指
Nanning 手指
Wuzhou 手指
Yulin 手兒
Hepu (Lianzhou) 手指
Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) 手指
Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu) 手指
Gan Nanchang 指頭子, 指頭, 手指頭, 指姆頭子
Lichuan 手節
Pingxiang 手指腦
Hakka Meixian 手指
Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua) 手指
Dongguan (Qingxi) 手指
Shenzhen (Shatoujiao) 手指
Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui) 手指
Heyuan (Bendihua) 手指
Liannan 手指
Conghua (Lütian) 手指
Jiexi 手指頭
Changting 手指頭
Yudu 手指
Shicheng 手指腦
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 手指
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 手指
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 手指
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 手指
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 手指
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 手指頭, 手指
Hong Kong 手指仔
Luchuan (Daqiao) 手指
Senai (Huiyang) 手指
Singkawang 手指
Huizhou Jixi 指頭, 手指頭
Shexian 手美頭, 手指頭
Tunxi 指指兒, 手指指兒頭
Xiuning 手指指兒
Yixian 手指頭兒
Qimen 手指
Wuyuan 手指頭
Jin Taiyuan 手指頭, 指頭兒
Pingyao 指頭兒
Xinzhou 指頭
Hohhot 指頭子
Northern Min Jian'ou 手指仔
Jian'ou (Dikou) 手仔
Zhenghe (Zhenqian) 手仔
Pucheng (Shibei) 手指仔, 手爪仔
Eastern Min Fuzhou 掌指, 手掌指, 手指
Changle 掌指
Fuqing 手掌指
Yongtai 掌指
Gutian 掌指
Fu'an 掌頭
Ningde 掌頭
Shouning 掌頭囝
Zhouning 掌頭
Fuding 掌頭囝
Matsu 掌指, 手掌指
Southern Min Xiamen 掌頭仔, 手爪
Quanzhou 掌頭仔, 手爪
Jinjiang 掌頭仔
Anxi 掌頭仔
Yongchun 掌頭囝
Dehua 掌頭囝
Zhangzhou 手掌頭仔, 手掌指仔, 手掌指, 掌頭仔, 掌指仔, 掌指, 手爪, 手指
Zhangzhou (Changtai) 掌頭仔
Zhao'an 手掌指仔
Dongshan 手掌頭仔
Taipei 掌頭仔
New Taipei (Sanxia) 掌頭仔
Kaohsiung 掌頭仔
Yilan 掌頭仔
Changhua (Lukang) 掌頭仔
Taichung 掌頭仔
Tainan 掌頭仔
Hsinchu 掌頭仔
Kinmen 掌頭仔
Penghu (Magong) 掌頭仔
Penang (Hokkien) 手指, 惹捚
Singapore (Hokkien) 手掌頭仔, 掌頭仔, 手爪
Manila (Hokkien) 掌頭仔
Longyan 手指仔
Zhangping 手指
Zhangping (Yongfu) 手指仔
Datian 手指頭
Pingnan (Shangdu) 手指
Chaozhou 手指
Jieyang 指
Haifeng 手指仔
Bangkok (Teochew) 手指
Ho Chi Minh City (Teochew) 指
Johor Bahru (Teochew) 手指
Singapore (Teochew) 手指
Leizhou 手囝
Wenchang 手囝
Haikou 手囝
Puxian Min Putian 手指頭
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 手指, 手指頭
Northern Pinghua Guilin (Dahe) 手指
Shehua Fu'an 手仔
Fuding 手仔
Luoyuan 手仔
Sanming 手仔
Shunchang 手仔
Hua'an 手指
Guixi (Zhangping) 手指仔
Cangnan 手仔
Jingning 手指仔
Lishui 手仔
Longyou 手仔
Chaozhou 手指
Fengshun 手指
Wu Shanghai 手節頭, 手指頭, 節頭官, 節頭骨
Shanghai (Chongming) 手節頭, 節頭
Suzhou 手節頭
Wuxi 手節頭
Danyang 指頭, 手指頭, 手拇指頭
Hangzhou 手指頭兒, 手指頭
Ningbo 指末頭, 手指末頭
Wenzhou 手指頭兒, 指頭兒
Jinhua 手拇執頭, 手指頭
Jinhua (Tangxi) 手末節頭
Xiang Changsha 手指腦, 手指拇
Xiangtan 手指腦
Loudi 手指腦
Shuangfeng 手指腦
Quanzhou 手指頭
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Hyponyms
Derived terms

Pronunciation 2
hand; convenient; ‑er
 
finger; to point; to direct
finger; to point; to direct; to indicate
trad. (手指) 手 指
simp. #(手指) 手 指
alternative forms 手只

Noun

手指

  1. (Min) finger ring; ring (Classifier: 奇 mn)
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 戒指 (“finger ring”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 指環
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 戒指, 指環
Mandarin Beijing 戒指兒, 嘎子
Taiwan 戒指
Tianjin 鎦子
Harbin 手箍子, 戒指兒
Yantai (Muping) 斑子, 手斑子
Jinan 戒指, 戒鎦子
Luoyang 戒指兒, 箍兒
Wanrong 戒圈子
Zhengzhou 戒指兒
Xi'an 戒指
Yinchuan 戒指
Lanzhou 戒指子, 手箍子
Xining 戒指兒
Ürümqi 戒指
Wuhan 箍子, 幹子
Chengdu 箍子, 戒指
Guiyang 戒指
Kunming 戒箍
Guilin 戒指
Liuzhou 戒指
Xuzhou 戒箍子, 箍子, 戒鎦子, 鎦子, 戒指
Yangzhou 戒指子
Nanjing 戒指
Singapore 戒指
Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan) 戒指子, 戒指兒
Cantonese Guangzhou 戒指
Hong Kong 戒指
Foshan 戒指
Foshan (Shunde) 戒指
Zhongshan (Shiqi) 戒指
Zhuhai (Doumen, Shangheng Tanka) 戒指
Taishan 戒指
Kaiping (Chikan) 戒指
Dongguan 戒指
Shaoguan 戒指
Yunfu 戒指
Xinyi 戒指
Lianjiang 戒指
Nanning 戒指
Gan Nanchang 戒箍子
Lichuan 戒指
Pingxiang 戒指
Hakka Meixian 戒指
Yudu 戒指
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 禁指
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 禁指, 金戒牯
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 禁指
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 手禁
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 禁指
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 手鎉
Singkawang 戒指
Huizhou Jixi 戒指
Jin Taiyuan 鎦子
Xinzhou 戒指子
Eastern Min Fuzhou 手指
Fuqing 手指
Minqing 手指
Matsu 手指
Southern Min Xiamen 手指
Quanzhou 手指
Zhangzhou 手指
Taipei 手指
Kaohsiung 手指
Yilan 手指
Changhua (Lukang) 手指
Taichung 手指
Taichung (Wuqi) 手指
Tainan 手指
Taitung 手指
Hsinchu 手指
Penghu (Magong) 手指
Penang (Hokkien) 手指
Singapore (Hokkien) 手指
Manila (Hokkien) 手指
Longyan 手指仔
Pingnan (Shangdu) 戒指
Shantou 手指
Jieyang 手指, 手節
Ho Chi Minh City (Teochew) 戒指
Leizhou 手指
Wenchang 戒指
Haikou 指奇
Puxian Min Putian 手指
Putian (Donghai) 手指
Putian (Jiangkou) 手指
Putian (Nanri) 手指
Xianyou 手指
Xianyou (Fengting) 手指
Xianyou (Youyang) 手指
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 戒指, 指戒
Waxiang Guzhang (Gaofeng) 戒箍子
Wu Shanghai 戒指
Shanghai (Chongming) 戒指
Suzhou 戒指
Danyang 戒指, 戒箍
Hangzhou 戒指兒
Ningbo 戒指
Wenzhou 戒指兒
Jinhua 戒指
Xiang Changsha 戒指, 箍子
Loudi 戒箍子
Quanzhou 戒指

Further reading

Japanese

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
手 指
しゅ
Grade: 1		 し
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ɕɨᵝɕi]

Noun

手(しゅ)指(し) • (shushi) 

  1. (often in compounds) finger; hand
    手(しゅ)指(し)衛(えい)生(せい)
    shushi eisei
    manual hygiene; hand washing

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
手 指
て
Grade: 1		 ゆび
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Of 手(て) (te, “hand; arm”) + 指(ゆび) (yubi, “digit”)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [te̞jɯ̟ᵝbʲi]

Noun

手(て)指(ゆび) • (teyubi) 

  1. finger
    Synonym: 指 (yubi, “finger; digit”)
    Antonym: 足指 (ashiyubi, “toe”)
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