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拾

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to pick up; to collate or arrange; ten (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

9 strokes Dict coverage rank #1,900 U+62FE

How 拾 is formed

Ideographic compound (会意字)

To gather 合 things in one's hands 扌

components: 扌 合

How to remember it

tidy up · Heisig RSH #1851

fingers + 合 fit

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words containing 拾

WordPinyinMeaning
一发不可收拾 yī fā bù kě shōu shi once it gets started there's no stopping it
不可收拾 bù kě shōu shi (idiom) irremediable; unmanageable; out of hand; hopeless
拾级而上 shè jí ér shàng to walk slowly up a flight of steps (idiom)
道不拾遗 dào bù shí yí lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom); fig. honesty prevails throughout…
路不拾遗 lù bù shí yí lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom); fig. honesty prevails throughout…
拾音器 shí yīn qì pickup (electro-acoustic transducer)
收拾残局 shōu shi cán jú to clear up the mess; to pick up the pieces
拾物 shí wù picked up items (i.e. lost property)
重拾 chóng shí to pick up (a theme etc); to regain (confidence); to revive (a custom, friendship etc)
众人拾柴火焰高 zhòng rén shí chái huǒ yàn gāo (lit.) when everybody gathers fuel, the flames are higher (proverb); (fig.) the more peopl…
拾得 Shí dé Shide, Tang Buddhist poet who lived at the Guoqing Temple on Mt Tiantai 天台山[Tian1 tai1 Sha…
拾得 shí dé to find; to pick up; to collect
朝花夕拾 Zhāo huā Xī shí "Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk", a collection of autobiographical essays by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[L…
拾遗补缺 shí yí bǔ quē to remedy omissions and correct errors (idiom)
补缺拾遗 bǔ quē shí yí see 拾遺補缺|拾遗补缺[shi2 yi2 bu3 que1]
拾金不昧 shí jīn bù mèi to pick up money and not hide it (idiom); to return property to its owner
收拾 shōu shi to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb
拾级 shè jí to go up or down stairs step by step
拾人牙慧 shí rén yá huì to pick up what others say (idiom); to pass off other people's opinions as one's own; to p…
拾取 shí qǔ to pick up; to collect