摘
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to take; to pick (flowers, fruit etc); to pluck; to remove; to take off (glasses, hat etc); to select; to pick out; to borrow money at a time of urgent need
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 手 +11
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 摘
- Common rank
- #2,340
- Unicode
- U+6458
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 摘 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
To pick 扌 a fruit off a branch 啇
Components 扌 啇
How to remember it
handpick · Heisig RSH #1858
fingers + antique
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 摘
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 读者文摘 | Reader's Digest | |
| 摘桃子 | to harvest the fruits of sb else's labor | |
| 摘帽子 | lit. to take off a hat; fig. to be cleared of an unfair charge; rehabilitation | |
| 摘金 | to win a gold medal | |
| 文摘 | digest (of literature); to make a digest (of data); summary | |
| 摘下 | to take off; to remove (one's hat, a door from its hinges etc); to pick (a piece of fruit … | |
| 报摘 | news digest | |
| 活摘 | to harvest (an organ) from a living person | |
| 指摘 | to criticize | |
| 摘记 | to take notes; to excerpt | |
| 摘取 | to pluck; to take | |
| 摘要 | summary; abstract | |
| 摘引 | to quote; to cite | |
| 摘牌 | to delist (a traded security); (sports) to accept a transfer-listed player from another cl… | |
| 摘除 | to excise; to remove an organ | |
| 摘由 | high points (of a document); resume | |
| 摘录 | to extract; to excerpt; an excerpt | |
| 摘借 | to borrow money | |
| 采摘 | to pluck; to pick | |
| 摘帽 | lit. to take off a hat; fig. to be cleared of an unfair charge; rehabilitation |