腕 - Bend Your ARMS and Use Your ABILITY

Readings & Meanings:

うで

ワン

arm, talent, ability

Common Usage:

腕

片腕

腕試し

鉄腕

Examples:

重い物を運んだので腕が痛い。

料理の腕を振るう。

２１歳で彼は社長の片腕となって働いた。

２級の試験を受けたのは、腕試しつもりだった。

鉄腕アトムは日本で初めて作られたテレビアニメだ。

Translations:

My arms hurt from moving heavy things.

I'll show you my talent for cooking.

At 21, he worked as the right-hand-man of the company president.

When I took the second-level test, I did it in order to test my own ability.

Astro Boy (鉄腕アトム=Atom the Strong) was the first TV anime series made in Japan.

Radical:

Just as in 胃, you can see here the body-part radical, 月. That's clear enough.

We've also got 宛 on the right. "Two figures bending beneath a cover," says Kanji Networks.


腕 are bendable body parts, hence, arms.

References:

http://www.kanjinetworks.com/knetwork/KUAN.html#KUAN30
http://sokasoka.blogspot.com/2008/02/can-you-stomach-working-rice-field-in.html
http://www.thejapanesepage.com/kanji/kanji/e.htm