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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拾* | 拾* | *拾
to pick up / to collate or arrange / ten (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拔* | 拔* | *拔
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *撿* | 撿* | *撿
to pick up; to collect; to gather
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *泡* | 泡* | *泡
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *盛* | 盛* | *盛
to hold / to contain / to ladle / to pick up with a utensil
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *摳* | 摳* | *摳
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *揀* | 揀* | *揀
to choose / to pick / to sort out / to pick up
HSK 7-9
to rise again after a fall / to pick up / rally (stock market etc)
HSK 7-9
to increase the specified cruising speed / to pick up speed / to speed up
HSK 7-9
to pick up and drop off; to ferry back and forth
to pick / to select / to take / to capture (data) / to acquire / to pick up (a signal)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *塈* | 塈* | *塈
(literary) to plaster / (literary) to pick up / (literary) to rest
a turn for the better / to pick up / to improve
to find / to pick up / to obtain
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *撮* | 撮* | *撮
to pick up (a powder etc) with the fingertips / to scoop up / to collect together / to extract / to gather up / classifier: pinch / Taiwan pr. [cuo4]
to pick up / to collect
to pick up; to gather
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *摭* | 摭* | *摭
pick up / to select
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
lit. can pick it up or put it down (idiom) / fig. to take what comes / to meet gains or losses with equanimity
lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom) / fig. honesty prevails throughout society
to pick up girls / to play around with girls / to chase after girls
to become tainted with the smell of sth else / to pick up an odor
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *搛* | 搛* | *搛
to pick up with chopsticks
to pick up what others say (idiom); to pass off other people's opinions as one's own / to parrot
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *掇* | 掇* | *掇
to pick up; to collect; to gather up
to pick up cress / fig. sth easy to do / a piece of cake
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鑷* | 鑷* | *鑷
(bound form) tweezers / to use tweezers (to grasp, pick up, or pull out etc, depending on whether the following resultative verb is or or etc)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *敧* | 敧* | *敧
to pick up thing with chopsticks or pincers.
to pick up money and not hide it (idiom); to return property to its owner
to clear up / to tidy up / to pick up / to repair
to pick up bits / to collect scrap material / tidbits / gleanings (used as gossip)
to host (a dinner) / to treat / to pick up the check
custom of placing a variety of articles (writing brush, abacus etc) before an infant on its first birthday to see which one he or she picks up (The article chosen is supposed to be an indication of the child's inclinations, future career etc.)
to pick up (from the ground with one's hands)
to pick up
to pick up (a theme etc) / to regain (confidence) / to revive (a custom, friendship etc)
to clear up the mess / to pick up the pieces
to meet (or pick up) sb arriving by plane / (of airport staff) to deal with the arrival of a plane
to pick up a pre-arranged item (e.g. package, document, ticket, reserved book) from a delivery point or collection location
to pick up a girl / to get a girl
to pick up (a skill) in a very short time; to take to sth like a duck to water
cheesy pick-up lines
lit. so numerous that one could just bend down and pick them up (idiom) / fig. extremely common; easily available
to evoke / to induce / to call to mind / to pick up with a hook
to take on a piece of work / to pick up some freelance work / (of a taxi driver) to pick up a fare
to pick up
to pick up a girl; to get a girl
(northern dialect) to pick up a fare (as a taxi driver) / to pick up a piece of work (as a courier)
to find / to pick up / to collect
to accept delivery of goods / to pick up goods
to pick up a car (newly purchased car from a dealership, repaired vehicle from a repair shop, rental car at the airport etc)
lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom) / fig. honesty prevails throughout society


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