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掌

palm of hand
Stroke count: 12

Readings

On readingショウ
Kun readingてのひら、たなごころ

Meanings

  1. palm of hand
    車掌さん。次の町ってどこですか?Say, Conductor! What's the next town?tatoeba
    バスの車掌は彼女に、料金を払えないので降りるようにと言った。The bus conductor told her to get off because she could not pay the fare.tatoeba
  2. rule
  3. administer
  4. conduct
  5. manipulateRtK
  1. palm (of the hand)

Popular Usage

車掌

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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outhouse · small (小) · little (小) · crown (冖) · mouth (口) · hand (手)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 864

Compound words

車掌さん。次の町ってどこですか?
Say, Conductor! What's the next town?tatoeba
バスの車掌は彼女に、料金を払えないので降りるようにと言った。
The bus conductor told her to get off because she could not pay the fare.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

掌の上で少し落ちついて書生の顔を見たのがいわゆる人間というものの見始めであろう
てのひらのうえですこしおちついてしょせいのかおをみたのがいわゆるにんげんというもののみはじめであろうSettling down a little on his palm and looking at the student's face was probably the start of my seeing what is called a human.
検札に来た車掌も、見て見ぬふりである。
けんさつにきたしゃしょうも、みてみぬふりである。The conductor who came to check tickets also pretended not to see.
掌の上のみかん
てのひらのうえのみかんA mandarin orange in the palm of a hand.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

12 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 掌

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