掌声 (zhǎng shēng)

Character breakdown

• 掌 (zhǎng) · 12 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 手 represents the meaning and 尚 represents the sound.

• 声 (shēng) · 7 strokes

  Remnant of the character 殸 (stone chimes). Depicts a musical stone chime hung up on a rope. Simplified form of 聲.