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摘

zhāi

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 character level 5 Character

摘 (zhāi) means "to pick (fruit, flowers)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 摘 means

1. to take; to pick (flowers, fruit etc); to pluck; to remove; to take off (glasses, hat etc)
2. to select; to pick out
3. to borrow money at a time of urgent need

Example sentences

• 他摘下了眼镜。
  Tā zhāixià le yǎnjìng.
  He took off his glasses.
• 我摘下了假发。
  Wǒ zhāixià le jiǎfà.
  I took off my wig.
• 我正在摘苹果。
  I'm picking apples.
• 他为她摘了些花。
  Tā wèi tā zhāi le xiē huā.
  He picked flowers for her.
• 她在花园里摘花。
  She picked flowers in the garden.
• 她摘了一些苹果。
  She picks some apples.

Words starting with 摘

• 摘要zhāi yàosummary; abstract
• 摘下zhāi xiàto take off; to remove (one's hat, a door from its hinges etc)…
• 摘录zhāi lùto extract; to excerpt; an excerpt
• 摘抄zhāi chāoto extract; to excerpt
• 摘取zhāi qǔto pluck; to take
• 摘除zhāi chúto excise; to remove an organ
• 摘借zhāi jièto borrow money
• 摘引zhāi yǐnto quote; to cite
• 摘牌zhāi páito delist (a traded security); (sports) to accept a transfer-listed player from another…
• 摘由zhāi yóuhigh points (of a document); resume
• 摘记zhāi jìto take notes; to excerpt
• 摘译zhāi yìquoted (from); translation of selected passages
• 摘金zhāi jīnto win a gold medal
• 摘帽zhāi màolit. to take off a hat; fig. to be cleared of an unfair charge; rehabilitation
• 摘帽子zhāi mào zilit. to take off a hat; fig. to be cleared of an unfair charge; rehabilitation
• 摘桃子zhāi táo zito harvest the fruits of sb else's labor

Words containing 摘

• 文摘wén zhāidigest (of literature); to make a digest (of data); summary
• 采摘cǎi zhāito pluck; to pick
• 指摘zhǐ zhāito criticize
• 报摘bào zhāinews digest
• 活摘huó zhāito harvest (an organ) from a living person
• 读者文摘Dú zhě Wén zhāiReader's Digest

Characters that look like 摘

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

• 播bō(bound form) to sow (seeds); to spread (ideas, rumors etc)…
• 搞gǎoto do; to make; to go in for
• 褐hèbrown; gray or dark color; coarse hemp cloth
• 熵shāngentropy (character created in 1923)
• 犒kàoto reward or comfort with presents of food, drink etc
• 搡sǎngto push forcefully; to shove

Sounds the same

Read zhāi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 斋to fast or abstain from meat, wine etc; vegetarian diet; study room
• 侧lean on one side

Where 摘 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Picking, Exhibitions & Registration (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhāi correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.