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收之桑榆

shōu zhī sāng yú

4-character word

What 收之桑榆 means

1. see 失之東隅，失之东隅，{收之桑榆|shī zhī dōng yú , shōu zhī sāng yú}

The characters in 收之桑榆

• 收shōuto receive; to accept; to collect
• 之zhī(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的; him; her
• 桑sāng(bound form) mulberry tree
• 榆yúelm

Words containing 收之桑榆

• 失之东隅，收之桑榆shī zhī dōng yú , shōu zhī sāng yúto lose at sunrise but gain at sunset (idiom); to compensate later for one's earlier…