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收藏

shōu cáng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

收藏 (shōu cáng) means "to collect (works of art, dolls, antiques etc); to put away for safekeeping; (Internet) to bookmark". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 收藏 means

1. to collect (works of art, dolls, antiques etc); to put away for safekeeping; (Internet) to bookmark
2. a collection

The characters in 收藏

• 收shōuto receive; to accept; to collect
• 藏cángto conceal; to hide away; to harbor

Example sentences

• 我想看看您的邮票收藏。
  Wǒ xiǎng kànkan nín de yóupiào shōucáng.
  I would like to have a look at your collection of stamps.
• 我发现了我爸爸收藏了30年的报纸。
  Wǒ fāxiàn le wǒ bàba shōucáng le sān shí nián de bàozhǐ.
  I discovered my father collected 30 years of newpapers.
• 由于母亲收藏了一整屋的唱片，汤姆小时候便有机会接触各种类型的音乐。
  Tom was exposed to a wide variety of music as a child through his mother's vast record collection.
• 我没有集邮，但是却收藏了一堆日本的明信片，我想我可以用这来做借口，邀请他来我家。
  Wǒ méiyǒu jíyóu, dànshì què shōucáng le yīduī Rìběn de míngxìnpiàn, wǒ xiǎng wǒ kěyǐ yòng zhè lái zuò jièkǒu, yāoqǐng tā lái wǒ jiā.
  I don't have a stamp collection, but I have a Japanese postcard collection that I could use as an excuse to invite him.
• "亲爱的，快，快。有个名为Tatoeba的网站正在拍卖它的句子收藏一句每一分钱！他们甚至有个优惠像是买一百句送一句！" "啊太好了！现在人们收集句子当作嗜好？！这是什么世界来着！"
  "qīn'ài de, kuài, kuài. yǒu gè míngwéi T atoeba de wǎngzhàn zhèngzài pāimài tā de jùzi shōucáng yījù měi yī fēnqián! tāmen shènzhì yǒu gè yōuhuì xiàng shì mǎi yī bǎi jù sòng yījù!" "ā tàihǎole! xiànzài rénmen shōují jùzi dàngzuò shìhào?! zhè shì shénme shìjiè láizhe!"
  "Honey, quick, quick. There's this website called Tatoeba that's auctioning its sentence collection for a cent each! They've even got special offers like buy 100 sentences and get 1 free!" "Ah great! now people collect sentences as a hobby?! What's the world coming to!"

Words starting with 收藏

• 收藏家shōu cáng jiāa collector (e.g. of artworks)
• 收藏夹shōu cáng jiāfavorites folder (web browser)

Where 收藏 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.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shōu cáng correctly.
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