撮 — Chinese character

撮

cuō

dash, pinch, small amount

Pinyin: cuō
Radical: 64 ⼿ (Hand)
Strokes: 15
Components: 扌最
Formation: pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 最
Japanese: 撮 as a kanji

Common words with 撮

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
一小撮	yī xiǎo cuō	handful (of)
撮合	cuō he	to play matchmaker; to act as a middleman
公撮	gōng cuō	milliliter
市撮	shì cuō	milliliter (old)

English words written with 撮

handful

撮 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Zhuangzi 2 · Doctrine of the Mean 1

Zhuangzi Man Among Men
Zhuangzi Autumn Floods
The Doctrine of the Mean Passage 27

Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.