| | to select; to pick / choice; option; alternative | HSK 4 |
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| | to choose / to pick / to select / to elect | HSK 2 |
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| | essence / extract / vitality / energy / semen / sperm / mythical goblin spirit / highly perfected / elite / the pick of sth / proficient (refined ability) / extremely (fine) / selected rice (archaic) | HSK 6 |
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| | to pull up / to pull out / to draw out by suction / to select / to pick / to stand out (above level) / to surpass / to seize | HSK 5 |
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| | preferably / one would prefer to...(or not to...) / would rather / (would) be better to / (to pick) the lesser of two evils | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to take; to pick (flowers, fruit etc); to pluck; to remove; to take off (glasses, hat etc) / to select; to pick out / to borrow money at a time of urgent need | HSK 5 |
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| | to pick up; to collect; to gather | HSK 6 |
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| | fork / pitchfork / prong / pick / cross / intersect / "X" | HSK 5 |
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| | to pick up and drop off; to ferry back and forth | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to pick up (a skill) in a very short time; to take to sth like a duck to water | |
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| | to pick up / to collate or arrange / ten (banker's anti-fraud numeral) | HSK 5 |
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| | to pick / to pluck / to collect / to select / to choose / to gather | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to pay the bill; to pick up the tab | |
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| | to carry on a shoulder pole / to choose / to pick / to nitpick | HSK 4 |
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| | bubble; foam / blister / to soak; to steep; to infuse / to dawdle; to loiter / to pick up (a girl) / to get off with (a sexual partner) / classifier for occurrences of an action / classifier for number of infusions | HSK 6 |
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| | to forage / to gather for eating / to pick and eat | |
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| | to scrape the meat from bones / to pick (teeth etc) / to weed out | |
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| | to pick up | |
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| | to increase the specified cruising speed / to pick up speed / to speed up | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to dig; to pick; to scratch (with a finger or sth pointed) / to carve; to cut / to study meticulously / stingy; miserly / to lift up (esp. the hem of a robe) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to rise again after a fall / to pick up / rally (stock market etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to hold / to contain / to ladle / to pick up with a utensil | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (coll.) nothing to pick on; really good / (coll.) nothing to discuss; settled matter; no problem | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to pick a quarrel / to start a fight | |
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| | to accept delivery of goods / to pick up goods | |
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| | to host (a dinner) / to treat / to pick up the check | |
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| | to find / to pick up / to collect | |
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| | to pick fault with / to spot the differences / to nitpick / to pick a quarrel / to find complaint with | |
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| | lit. can pick it up or put it down (idiom) / fig. to take what comes / to meet gains or losses with equanimity | |
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| | to pick up a pre-arranged item (e.g. package, document, ticket, reserved book) from a delivery point or collection location | |
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| | water pick / oral irrigator | |
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| | to point out / to indicate / to give directions / to show how (to do sth) / to censure / to pick at | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to choose / to pick / to sort out / to pick up | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to pick pockets | |
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| | to select / to choose / to pick over / to pick out / to differentiate / to eliminate / also pr. [zhai2] | |
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| | cheesy pick-up lines | |
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| | to steal / to pick pockets / to frisk | |
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| | to clear up the mess / to pick up the pieces | |
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| | (loanword) pick; plectrum | |
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| | to pick / to choose / to select | |
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| | to evoke / to induce / to call to mind / to pick up with a hook | |
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| | lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom) / fig. honesty prevails throughout society | |
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| | to pick / to choose / to fight a duel / Taiwan pr. [dan1 tiao1] | |
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| | to look for employment / to pick a quarrel | |
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| | lit. to pick the flowers and trample the grass (idiom) / fig. to womanize / to frequent brothels / to sow one's wild oats | |
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| | to pick (flowers) / to pinch / to nip / to pinch off / to clutch / (slang) to fight | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to meet (or pick up) sb arriving by plane / (of airport staff) to deal with the arrival of a plane | |
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| | (of a courier) to pick up; to collect (parcels or goods for shipping) | |
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| | ear pick | |
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| | bad habit (e.g. nose-picking) / petty maneuver / dirty trick / gamesmanship | |
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| | to find / to pick up / to obtain | |
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| | to pick up money and not hide it (idiom); to return property to its owner | |
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| | to pick out / to select / to elect | |
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| | to pick up; to gather | |
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| | to pick up a car (newly purchased car from a dealership, repaired vehicle from a repair shop, rental car at the airport etc) | |
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| | a turn for the better / to pick up / to improve | |
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| | to pick up | |
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| | to choose freely; to pick whichever one fancies | |
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| | (idiom) to cherry-pick; to pick the best parts for oneself; to be choosy | |
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| | pick and roll (basketball) / screen and roll | |
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| | to pick up / to collect | |
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| | to pluck / to pick | |
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| | to pluck a pearl from the black dragon (idiom, from Zhuangzi); fig. to pick out the salient points (from a tangled situation) / to see through to the nub | |
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| | (bound form) tweezers / to use tweezers (to grasp, pick up, or pull out etc, depending on whether the following resultative verb is 住 or 起 or 出 etc) | |
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| | to pick up girls / to play around with girls / to chase after girls | |
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| | to pick up a girl; to get a girl | |
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| | pick; plectrum | |
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| | to remove earwax with an ear pick | |
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| | to take off; to remove (one's hat, a door from its hinges etc) / to pick (a piece of fruit from a tree etc) / (sports) to pick off (a rebound etc) | |
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| | to pick on sth incessantly (idiom) / to criticize right and left | |
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| | to request a song to be played / to pick a karaoke song | |
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| | ice pick | |
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| | when hungry, you can't pick what you eat (idiom); beggars can't be choosers / When matters are urgent, don't spend time choosing alternatives. | |
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| | to pick and choose / to select | |
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| | to become tainted with the smell of sth else / to pick up an odor | |
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| | Kong Rong giving up pears, classic moral story about Kong Rong 孔融 picking up smaller pears while leaving the bigger ones to his older brothers, still used nowadays to educate the young on courtesy and modesty | |
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| | to pick one's nose | |
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| | to pick flowers / to enter houses at night in order to rape women | |
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| | to pick out / to select and recruit / to pluck / to pull | |
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| | to pick the edible part of vegetables | |
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| | to pick one's teeth | |
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| | ear pick | |
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| | to pick out / to single out | |
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| | to pick a lock / to force a lock | |
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| | the God of Thunder strikes bean curd, a bully picks the weakest person / to pick on an easy target | |
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| | hammer pick | |
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| | to pick up (from the ground with one's hands) | |
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| | to pick up cress / fig. sth easy to do / a piece of cake | |
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| | to pick up (a theme etc) / to regain (confidence) / to revive (a custom, friendship etc) | |
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| | (northern dialect) to pick up a fare (as a taxi driver) / to pick up a piece of work (as a courier) | |
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| | to take on a piece of work / to pick up some freelance work / (of a taxi driver) to pick up a fare | |
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| | to pull out (esp. hair or feathers) / to pick / to pluck / fig. to extract (lines from a text) | |
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| | a pick | |
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| | lit. so numerous that one could just bend down and pick them up (idiom) / fig. extremely common; easily available | |
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| | to pick up a girl / to get a girl | |
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| | to pick up thing with chopsticks or pincers. | |
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| | a changeover of personnel / a new shift / (lit.) replacement for soldier on leave for the melon-picking season | |
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| | lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom) / fig. honesty prevails throughout society | |
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| | lit. it's the soft persimmons that people choose to squeeze (idiom) / fig. it's the weak (i.e. 軟柿子|软柿子) who get picked on / bullies pick soft targets | |
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| | to pick up with chopsticks | |
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