palm of the hand / sole of the foot / paw / horseshoe / to slap / to hold in one's hand / to wield

= + : Inside the anglepod (ang3), James II of England (zh) and the Buddhist monk (尚) play catch using two baseball gloves (手) and a horseshoe (掌).

掌 character breakdown

surname Shang
still / yet / to value / to esteem

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 和尚, a buddhist monk.

Sherlock Holmes (sh) assumed his new post inside of the anglepod's bathroom (ang4) at the border control checkpoint (冋). His first client is a buddhist monk (尚) who wants to import some aloe vera (⺌). Sherlock asks him what he thinks how large the value (尚) of his goods is, but the buddhist monk has no idea.
hand / (formal) to hold / person engaged in certain types of work / person skilled in certain types of work / personal(ly) / convenient / classifier for skill / CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]

Mnemonic symbol: a baseball glove. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is trying out his new baseball glove (手) in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

Characters with 掌 as component

to support / to prop up / to push or move with a pole / to maintain / to open or unfurl / to fill to bursting point / brace / stay / support

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) is bracing (撑) himself for his next battle in front of the engine ((e)ng1). He supports (撑) his feet with horseshoes (掌) and holds a toy claw (扌) in each hand.
(dialect) cooking pot / variant of 鐺|铛[cheng1]

Words with 掌

variant of 了如指掌[liao3 ru2 zhi3 zhang3]
to know sth like the back of one's hand (idiom) / to know (a person, a place etc) inside out
baguazhang (a form of Chinese boxing)
lit. to turn over one's palm / fig. everything is going very well.
see 了如指掌[liao3 ru2 zhi3 zhang3]
lit. one palm alone cannot clap (proverb) / fig. it takes two persons to start a dispute / it takes two to tango / it's difficult to achieve anything without support
in charge (of a position etc) / the person in charge / responsible
see 了如指掌[liao3 ru2 zhi3 zhang3]

Sentences with 掌

zhǎng
guǎn
yù
mǎ
jia̅n
 
 
xià
殿
diàn
qù
ba