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拾

shí, shè

pick up

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 合 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

合 sound component

合  Sound component

hé, gě

  

to join

Evolution

拾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
拾 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
拾 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
拾 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
拾 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

拾  

shí

pick up, collect, tidy up; accounting form of the numeral ten; to pick up; to collate or arrange; ten (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

拾  

shè

to ascend in light steps

Most common words with 拾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

收拾

to tidy up

拾

to pick up

不可收拾

irremediable

一发不可收拾

to get out of hand

拾荒

to glean

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d][ə]p

dzyip

shí

pick up, gather


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 25.8049% of movies

1403rd most common character in movies

1961st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+62FE

Shuowen

“拾，掇也。从手，合聲。”


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