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拾

shè

HSK 6 Character

What 拾 means

1. to ascend in light steps

Other readings

拾 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• shíto pick up; to collate or arrange; ten (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

Example sentences

• 收拾房间。
  Clean up the room.
• 他拾起了书。
  He picked up the book.
• 你收拾好东西了没有？
  Nǐ shōushi hǎo dōngxi le méiyǒu?
  Have you finished packing yet?
• 她经常在饭后收拾桌子。
  She always clears the table after a meal.
• 他一步一步地拾级而上。
  He went up the steps slowly.
• 下午你把房间收拾干净。
  Clean up the room in the afternoon.

Words starting with 拾

• 拾掇shí duoto clear up; to tidy up; to pick up
• 拾荒shí huāngto glean; to collect scraps; to eke out a meager living
• 拾金不昧shí jīn bù mèito pick up money and not hide it (idiom); to return property to its owner
• 拾得shí déto find; to pick up; to collect
• 拾取shí qǔto pick up; to collect
• 拾物shí wùpicked up items (i.e. lost property)
• 拾获shí huòto find; to pick up; to obtain
• 拾级shè jíto go up or down stairs step by step
• 拾芥shí jièto pick up cress; fig. sth easy to do; a piece of cake
• 拾遗shí yíto pocket a lost article; (fig.) to correct others' errors…
• 拾零shí língto pick up bits; to collect scrap material; tidbits
• 拾音器shí yīn qìpickup (electro-acoustic transducer)
• 拾人涕唾shí rén tì tuòto plagiarize (idiom)
• 拾人牙慧shí rén yá huìto pick up what others say (idiom); to pass off other people's opinions as one's own…
• 拾级而上shè jí ér shàngto walk slowly up a flight of steps (idiom)
• 拾遗补缺shí yí bǔ quēto remedy omissions and correct errors (idiom)

Words containing 拾

• 收拾shōu shito put in order; to tidy up; to pack
• 不可收拾bù kě shōu shi(idiom) irremediable; unmanageable; out of hand; hopeless
• 捡拾jiǎn shíto pick up; to gather
• 执拾zhí shíto tidy up (dialect)
• 重拾chóng shíto pick up (a theme etc); to regain (confidence); to revive (a custom, friendship etc)
• 俯拾皆是fǔ shí jiē shìlit. so numerous that one could just bend down and pick them up (idiom)…
• 收拾残局shōu shi cán júto clear up the mess; to pick up the pieces
• 朝花夕拾Zhāo huā Xī shí"Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk", a collection of autobiographical essays by Lu Xun 鲁迅
• 路不拾遗lù bù shí yílit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom)…
• 道不拾遗dào bù shí yílit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom)…
• 一发不可收拾yī fā bù kě shōu shionce it gets started there's no stopping it
• 众人拾柴火焰高zhòng rén shí chái huǒ yàn gāo(lit.) when everybody gathers fuel, the flames are higher (proverb)…
• 俯拾即是fǔ shí jí shìsee 俯拾皆是
• 补缺拾遗bǔ quē shí yísee 拾遗补缺

Characters built on 合

These share the phonetic component 合 (hé), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 盒hésmall box; case
• 鸽gēpigeon; dove
• 蛤gé(bound form) clam; used in 蛤蚧
• 颌hé(bound form) jaw
• 搿géto hug

Characters that look like 拾

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 给gěito; for; for the benefit of
• 恰qiàexactly; just
• 栅zhàfence; also pr. shān
• 捡jiǎnto pick up; to collect; to gather
• 捂wǔto enclose; to cover with the hand (one's eyes, nose or ears); to cover up (an affair)
• 俭jiǎn(bound form) frugal; thrifty

Sounds the same

Read shè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 社(bound form) society; organization; agency; (old) god of the land
• 设to set up; to put in place; (math) given; suppose; if
• 射to shoot; to launch; to allude to
• 摄(bound form) to take in; to absorb; to assimilate; to capture (video or still images)…
• 涉(literary) to wade across a body of water; (bound form) to experience; to undergo
• 赦to pardon (a convict)
• 舍(bound form) residence; house; (bound form) my…
• 麝musk deer (Moschus moschiferus); also called 香獐子
• 慑(bound form) to fear; to be cowed; (bound form) to frighten; to intimidate; Taiwan pr. zhé
• 蠂Podisma mikado
• 歙used in 歙县
• 韘archer's thumb ring