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Pinyin	Yale	Jyutping	English Definition for Chinese Text
shou3 zhi3	sau2 ji2	sau2 zi2	finger

Traditional Chinese	Pinyin	Yale	Jyutping	English Definition for Chinese Text
手 Learn more	shou3	sau2	sau2	hand / (formal) to hold / person engaged in certain types of work / person skilled in certain types of work / personal(ly) / convenient / classifier for skill
指 Learn more	zhi3	ji2	zi2	finger / to point at or to / to indicate or refer to / to depend on / to count on / (of hair) to stand on end

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Traditional	Pinyin	Used for
只	zhi1	birds, certain animals; some utensils, one of a pair of things
個	ge4	general things; it's a catch-all measure word for individual things or units of something both abstract or physical objects

The jewels on her fingers sparkled.

She cut her finger on a piece of glass.

Toes are the fingers that have forsaken their past.

The cold numbed my fingers.

The pages had been thumbed into a state of extremely dirty softness.

His finger traced a circle around the area surrounding Macon, Mississippi.

He gulped and looked wildly about him, his fingertips trembling.

Those ladies were brassy and busty, with pudgy fingers and painted eyes.

Jordan's fingers, powdered white over their tan, rested for a moment in mine.

Read their body language. Are their eyes wandering or are they drumming the desk with their fingers?

Phonetics:	ni3	nǐ
Tone colors (āáǎàa):	off	on