收
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to receive; to accept; to collect; to put away; to restrain; to stop; in care of (used on address line after name)
6 strokes
Dict coverage rank #325 U+6536
How 收 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
攵 (semantic, “hand”) + 丩 (phonetic, jiū)
components: 丩 攵
How to remember it
receive · Heisig RSH #1193
cornucopia + taskmaster
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 丩
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 丩 (jiū) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 丩 sound component | jiū | to connect, to join; vine |
| 叫 | jiào | cry, shout; to call, to greet, to hail |
| 赳 | jiū | gallant, valiant |
Words containing 收
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无线电收发机 | wú xiàn diàn shōu fā jī | transceiver; radio frequency receiver, broadcaster or relay |
| 一发而不可收 | yī fā ér bù kě shōu | to be impossible to stop once started |
| 收山之作 | shōu shān zhī zuò | the final work in the career of a composer, film director or architect etc |
| 无线电接收机 | wú xiàn diàn jiē shōu jī | receiver (radio) |
| 主动收入 | zhǔ dòng shōu rù | (finance) active income |
| 收音机 | shōu yīn jī | radio; CL:臺|台[tai2] |
| 收报人 | shōu bào rén | recipient (of mail or a message) |
| 收山 | shōu shān | (slang) (from Cantonese) to bow out after a long career; to pack it in; (of a gangster, pr… |
| 国民收入 | guó mín shōu rù | measures of national income and output |
| 收市 | shōu shì | to close the market (for the day); to close (a market, shop etc) for business |
| 收心 | shōu xīn | to concentrate on the task; to curb one's evil instincts |
| 收地 | shōu dì | to confiscate land for redistribution (China, 1947-52); (of a government) to acquire land … |
| 收报机 | shōu bào jī | telegraph receiver |
| 收手 | shōu shǒu | to stop; to pull back |
| 收发 | shōu fā | to receive and send; to receive and transmit |
| 收下 | shōu xià | to accept; to receive |
| 收口 | shōu kǒu | (knitting, basket weaving etc) to cast off; to bind; (of a wound) to close up; to heal |
| 名利双收 | míng lì shuāng shōu | both fame and fortune (idiom); both virtue and reward |
| 收工 | shōu gōng | to stop work for the day (generally of laborers); to knock off |
| 收成 | shōu chéng | harvest |