手痕

Chinese

Etymology 1

		hand	mark
simp. and trad. (手痕)		手	痕

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shǒuhén

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄡˇ ㄏㄣˊ

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhiú-hûn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shǒuhén
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄡˇ ㄏㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shǒuhén
    • Wade–Giles: shou³-hên²
    • Yale: shǒu-hén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoouhern
    • Palladius: шоухэнь (šouxɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xən³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiú-hûn
    • Tâi-lô: tshiú-hûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiw'huun
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hun²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hun²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hun¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hun²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ hun²³/

Noun

手痕

1. mark made from lines on the hand; fingerprint or handprint
2. (literary) handwriting

Synonyms

• (fingerprint):

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• 手印 (shǒuyìn)
• 手指模 (sau² zi² mou⁴) (Cantonese)
• 手指腡 / 手指脶 (Hakka)
• 手模 (shǒumó)
• 指印 (zhǐyìn)
• 指模 (zi² mou⁴) (Cantonese, Hokkien)
• 指紋 / 指纹 (zhǐwén)
• 掌頭仔痕 / 掌头仔痕 (Hokkien)
• 節頭印 / 节头印 (⁷ciq-deu-in) (Wu)
• 紋腡 / 纹脶 (⁶ven-lu) (Wu)

Etymology 2

		hand	itchy
simp. and trad. (手痕)		手	痕
Literally: “itchy hands”.

Compare English itchy feet, a similar usage of “itchy” to mean “restless”.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau² han⁴

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sau² han⁴
    • Yale: sáu hàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau² han⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: seo² hen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯³⁵ hɐn²¹/

Adjective

手痕 (Cantonese)

1. having restless hands; having an urge to fiddle with things

References

• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “手痕”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎, volume 2 (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC, page 148
• “Entry #1064”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.