Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

拾: pick up, gather

Also: find, go on foot, ten

JLPT N29 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met

扌 carries the meaning · 合 is drawn in

9 strokes

Three readings, and the words that use each

シュウshuu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 拾得するしゅうとくするpick up, find
  • 収拾するしゅうしゅうするcontrol, deal with, manage
  • 収拾しゅうしゅう
  • 拾得しゅうとく

ジュウjuu · on'yomi

  • 拾万円じゅうまんえん100,000 yen

ひろうhirou · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 拾うひろうpick up
  • 拾い物ひろいものfound article

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)手 hand, as 扌 (meaning) + 合 (sound)

To pick up by hand.

Source: Wiktionary, 拾 (rev. 93667815), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Hand radical (扌) + join/fit (合) = the action of hands coming together to gather items from the earth and pick them up.”
From the 扌 hand story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
扌

Also built on hand (扌)

All 88
合

Also built on fit (合)

Also read シュウ

39 kanji share this on'yomiAll 39

Also read ジュウ

11 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · shí

Same form: 拾 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
拾 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
拾 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin shí most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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