捡
Tap the pinyin to hear it
to pick up; to collect; to gather
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 手 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 撿
- Common rank
- #3,791
- Unicode
- U+6361
Sound it out + + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 捡 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
扌 meaning “hand” + 佥 sound ()
Components 扌 佥
How to remember it
pick up · Heisig RSH #2860
fingers + hootenanny + 指 finger
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 捡
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 捡到篮里就是菜 | all is grist that comes to the mill (idiom) | |
| 捡了芝麻丢了西瓜 | to let go of the big prize while grabbing at trifles (idiom) | |
| 捡骨 | bone-gathering, a custom of Fujian and Taiwan in which a son recovers the bones of his dec… | |
| 捡漏 | to repair a leaky roof; (dialect) to find fault; to nitpick; (slang) to score a bargain (e… | |
| 捡尸 | (slang) to target an intoxicated person for sexual assault | |
| 捡拾 | to pick up; to gather |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 佥 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 佥 sound part | all, together, unanimous | |
| 脸 | face, cheek; reputation | |
| 险 | narrow pass, strategic point | |
| 检 | to check, to examine, to inspect | |
| 验 | to examine, to inspect, to test, to verify | |
| 剑 | sword, dagger, saber | |
| 签 | to sign, to endorse; a note, a slip of paper | |
| 俭 | temperate, frugal, economical | |
| 敛 | to collect, to extort | |
| 睑 | eyelid | |
| 殓 | to dress a corpse for burial | |
| 硷 | alkaline, alkali, lye, salt | |
| 莶 | vine | |
| 猃 | long-snouted dog | |
| 裣 | draw one's hands into sleeve |