指手畫腳

指
指
手
手
画
畫
脚
腳
to gesticulate while talking (idiom) / to explain by waving one's hands / to criticize or give orders summarily

Characters and words in 指手畫腳

指
zhǐ = zh + Ø3
finger / to point at or to / to indicate or refer to / to depend on / to count on / (of hair) to stand on end
指 = 扌 + 旨 : James II of England (zh) received another imperial decree (旨) In the space station (Ø3). Because his finger (指) nails (指甲) are so long, he has to use a toy claw (扌) to open the letter. In the decree it is written that he shall cut his finger nails because they are the only human objects than can be seen from earth without visual aide.
手
shǒu = sh + ou3
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).
画
畫
huà = hu + a4
to draw / picture / painting / CL:幅[fu2],張|张[zhang1] / classifier for paintings etc / variant of 劃|划[hua4]
画 = 一 + 田 + 凵 : Helga Horse (hu) decided to make the ashram's bathroom (a4) more beautiful, so she paints (画) her favourite field (田) on the wall using a flute (一). She doesn't watch out for the receptacles (凵) though, and gets shocked as her flute gets stuck in one of them.
脚
腳
jiǎo = ji + ao3
foot / leg (of an animal or an object) / base (of an object) / CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1] / classifier for kicks
脚 = 却 + 月 : In the aorta Joan of Arc wanted to play a prank on the moon and kick him in the ass while he's inattentive for a second, but when she kicked him she just hurt her foot, and the moon didn't even notice. Silently, she retreats for now, limping on her hurt foot.
脚
腳
jué = ju + e2
variant of 角[jue2] / role

Words with 指手畫腳

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Sentences with 指手畫腳

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