Chinese symbol for “gestures”
举手投足
jǔ shǒu tóu zú
Traditional: 舉手投足
one's every movement (idiom); comportment; gestures
The closest CC-CEDICT match for gestures is 举手投足 (jǔ shǒu tóu zú), defined as: one's every movement (idiom); comportment; gestures.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 举手投足.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 举行 (舉行) | jǔ xíng | to hold (a meeting, ceremony etc) |
| 选举 (選舉) | xuǎn jǔ | to elect; election |
| 举办 (舉辦) | jǔ bàn | to conduct; to hold (an event) |
| 举报 (舉報) | jǔ bào | to report (malefactors to the police); to denounce |
| 举动 (舉動) | jǔ dòng | act; action |
| 举措 (舉措) | jǔ cuò | move; act; measure |
| 手机 (手機) | shǒu jī | cell phone; mobile phone; measure word: 部 (bù), 台 (tái) |
| 手段 | shǒu duàn | method; way; means (of doing sth); skill; ability |
| 投资 (投資) | tóu zī | investment; to invest |
| 足球 | zú qiú | soccer; football; a soccer ball; a football |
See also: Japanese symbol for “gestures”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.