拾(shí)

HSK 59 strokes
Readingsshíshè

to ascend in light steps

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Character information

Pinyin
shí / shè
Meaning
to ascend in light steps
Strokes
9
HSK level
HSK 5
Traditional
Same

Origin & structure

Where 拾 comes from and how its parts fit together.

Ideograph⿰扌合

To gather 合 things in one's hands 扌

A combination of parts whose meanings add up to the whole.

Made of

扌shǒu合hé

Parts are arranged left to right.

How to write 拾 step by step

9 strokes — each frame adds one stroke, shown in dark ink over the lighter ones.

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Words with 拾

Common words using 拾 — tap any character to open its stroke-order page.

shōu收shí拾
HSK 5

to put in order

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zhí执shí拾

to tidy up (dialect)

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shí拾qǔ取

to pick up; to collect

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shí拾dé得

Shide, Tang Buddhist poet who lived at the Guoqing Temple on Mt Tiantai 天台山…

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bù不kě可shōu收shi拾

(idiom) irremediable; unmanageable; out of hand; hopeless

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fǔ俯shí拾jí即shì是

see 俯拾皆是[fu3 shi2 jie1 shi4]

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fǔ俯shí拾jiē皆shì是

lit. so numerous that one could just bend down and pick them up (idiom)

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shí拾rén人tì涕tuò唾

to plagiarize (idiom)

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