Radical 扌

7 strokes

hand 扌 (152a) + dagger 戈 (32a) = look for 找

Compare 找 with the far more common character 我 meaning “I” (Character 32). here the hand and dagger are separate, whereas in Character 32 they were fused together; a difference reflected in the stories for these two characters.

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At the crime scene the detective pulls the policeman’s hand away from the dagger saying, “We must look for fingerprints first.” / Teddy’s alibi is that he was watching the jousting on TV.

This is the form which 手 “hand” (Character 31) usually takes when it forms the left-hand side of a character. Note the stroke order (compared with that for 手), and also note that the final stroke is drawn upwards.