to grasp or hold with both hands

To take a handful  also provides the pronunciation

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

匊 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

  

handful

Definitions

 

to grasp or hold with both hands; to hold in one's hands; classifier for a double handful; Taiwan pr. [jú]

Most common words with 掬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

笑容可掬

smiling wholeheartedly (idiom); beaming from ear to ear

Taiwan pr. [jú]

憨态可掬

cute

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4398th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+63AC


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