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收拾

shōu shi

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

收拾 (shōu shi) means "to put in order". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 收拾 means

1. to put in order
2. to tidy up
3. to pack
4. to repair
5. colloquialto sort sb out
6. to fix sb

The characters in 收拾

• 收shōuto receive; to accept; to collect
• 拾shèto ascend in light steps

Example sentences

• 收拾房间。
  Clean up the room.
• 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.
• 下午你把房间收拾干净。
  Clean up the room in the afternoon.
• 我妈要求我把我的房间收拾好。
  My mother told me to clean the room.
• 她很就快把这烂摊子收拾好了。
  She quickly cleaned up the mess.

Words starting with 收拾

• 收拾残局shōu shi cán júto clear up the mess; to pick up the pieces

Words containing 收拾

• 不可收拾bù kě shōu shi(idiom) irremediable; unmanageable; out of hand; hopeless
• 一发不可收拾yī fā bù kě shōu shionce it gets started there's no stopping it

Where 收拾 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Home & household objects (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shōu shi correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.