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

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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]
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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
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(dialect) cooking pot / variant of 鐺|铛[cheng1]
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Words with 掌

to know sth like the back of one's hand (idiom) / to know (a person, a place etc) inside out
variant of 了如指掌[liao3 ru2 zhi3 zhang3]
to clap one's hands / to clap each other's hands / high five
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
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