(shōu) - to receive, to collect, to put away, to harvest in Mandarin
shōuTraditional: 收
Translation
to receive, to collect, to put away, to harvest
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound combining 攴 (pū, to tap, to strike, written as the rap radical 攵) with 丩 (jiū) as the phonetic element, the action component pointing to gathering in.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 丩 (jiū, phonetic) + 攵 (pū, to tap, action)
Stroke order
收
Examples
。
I received your letter.
。
Please put away the things on the table.
农田稻。
The farmers are harvesting the rice in the field.
。
This shop does not accept cash.
租。
He collects the rent on time every month.
收 (shōu) means to receive or collect, and by extension to gather up, put away, or bring in a harvest. It is the natural opposite of 发 (fā, to send out) in many compounds.
Where this fits
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 收.
Used in
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