拾
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to pick up; to collate or arrange; ten (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 手 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 拾
- Common rank
- #1,900
- Unicode
- U+62FE
Sound it out + = · + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
tidy up · Heisig RSH #1851
fingers + 合 fit
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 拾
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一发不可收拾 | once it gets started there's no stopping it | |
| 不可收拾 | (idiom) irremediable; unmanageable; out of hand; hopeless | |
| 拾级而上 | to walk slowly up a flight of steps (idiom) | |
| 道不拾遗 | lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom); fig. honesty prevails throughout… | |
| 路不拾遗 | lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom); fig. honesty prevails throughout… | |
| 拾音器 | pickup (electro-acoustic transducer) | |
| 收拾残局 | to clear up the mess; to pick up the pieces | |
| 拾物 | picked up items (i.e. lost property) | |
| 重拾 | to pick up (a theme etc); to regain (confidence); to revive (a custom, friendship etc) | |
| 众人拾柴火焰高 | (lit.) when everybody gathers fuel, the flames are higher (proverb); (fig.) the more peopl… | |
| 拾得 | Shide, Tang Buddhist poet who lived at the Guoqing Temple on Mt Tiantai 天台山[Tian1 tai1 Sha… | |
| 拾得 | to find; to pick up; to collect | |
| 朝花夕拾 | "Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk", a collection of autobiographical essays by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[L… | |
| 拾遗补缺 | to remedy omissions and correct errors (idiom) | |
| 补缺拾遗 | see 拾遺補缺|拾遗补缺[shi2 yi2 bu3 que1] | |
| 拾金不昧 | to pick up money and not hide it (idiom); to return property to its owner | |
| 收拾 | to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb | |
| 拾级 | to go up or down stairs step by step | |
| 拾人牙慧 | to pick up what others say (idiom); to pass off other people's opinions as one's own; to p… | |
| 拾取 | to pick up; to collect |