手 shǒu
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 手 — hand
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
手里
shǒuli
in the hand
Characters in this word
里 lǐ
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 里 — inside
- Made of
- 田 field, farm, arable land 土 soil, earth
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 书在我手里。 Shū zài wǒ shǒuli. The book is in my hand.
- 他手里有花。 Tā shǒuli yǒu huā. He has flowers in his hand.
- 手机在手里。 Shǒujī zài shǒuli. The phone is in my hand.