HSK 6 · Verbs

拾 shí “to pick up” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 拾 means

  1. to pick up
  2. ten (formal numeral)
  3. to collate or arrange
  4. ten (banker’s anti-fraud numeral)

How to say 拾

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale拾shí2nd tone, rising

拾 in a sentence

  1. 他拾起了书。

    Tā shíqǐ le shū.

    He picked up the book.

    Sentence #7780622 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 拾 also appears in 收拾 shōushi “to tidy up”

    下午你把房间收拾干净。

    Xiàwǔ nǐ bǎ fángjiān shōushi gānjìng.

    Tidy up your room this afternoon.

    Sentence #9962473 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 拾 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 拾 (shè) with each of its parts in a different colour
拾shíto pick up
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒu
  • 合to combine · gě

How to write 拾

拾 9 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

拾 (shí) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 拾 (shí). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 拾

Words with 拾

收拾shōushi · to put in order

More words: Common Verbs

闪烁shǎnshuò · to twinkle捎shāo · to bring along设立shèlì · to set up渗透shèntòu · to permeate施加shījiā · to exert实施shíshī · to implement试图shìtú · to attempt实行shíxíng · to put into practice

FAQs

拾 (shí) means “to pick up” or “ten (formal numeral)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it shí: shí with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 拾 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 拾 from the suggestions. Typing shi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
拾 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.