手痕

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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

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

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

Synonyms

(fingerprint):

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

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)

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., 2024.

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