Dictionary › 拾
拾
shè
拾 (shí) means "to pick up; to collect; ten (banker's numeral)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.
What 拾 means
- to ascend in light steps
Other readings
Example sentences
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收拾房间。Clean up the room.
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他拾起了书。He picked up the book.
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你收拾好东西了没有？Nǐ shōushi hǎo dōngxi le méiyǒu?Have you finished packing yet?
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她经常在饭后收拾桌子。She always clears the table after a meal.
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他一步一步地拾级而上。He went up the steps slowly.
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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.
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
Where 拾 is taught
In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shí–shū (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.
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