The human hand lies at the center of action, perception, creativity, and social interaction, leaving deep traces in language and culture. This volume examines how the hand is conceptualized across a wide range of languages through metaphor, metonymy, grammar, and cultural models. Bringing together diachronic analyses, corpus-based studies, proverb traditions, and data from both well-documented and lesser-studied languages, it demonstrates how embodied experience shapes meanings related to agency, skill, morality, and cognition. Integrating insights from Cultural Linguistics, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and embodiment research, this volume offers a comprehensive cross-linguistic account of how manual experience becomes embedded in linguistic structure and cultural knowledge.