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What are the five fingers called?

1. Thumb

The first finger of the hand, the thickest and shortest finger is the thumb, which helps us to hold things. The thumbs up gesture is almost universally recognized to indicate good, high, wonderful, all the best, very good and other similar messages.

2, index finger

Expector finger between the thumb and the middle finger, slightly shorter than the ring finger, is the second flexible, commonly used fingers. The term "index finger" has been recorded in Zuo Zhuan (左传) in the Spring and Autumn Period, and has given rise to the idiom "食指大动".

3, the middle finger

The middle finger is the finger between the index finger and ring finger. It is the third finger of the hand.

4, Ring Finger

The ring finger is the finger between the middle finger and the little finger, and it is the least flexible finger of human beings. It is the finger on which people wear a ring (signet ring) when they get married, also known as the ring finger.

The ring finger is the finger between the middle finger and the little finger, and is traditionally the least flexible finger in human beings, due to the fact that the ring finger is the finger with the least strength among the five fingers.

5, little finger

the fifth finger of the hand. Wearing a ring on the little finger: indicates celibacy, not marrying or marrying.