収
income, obtain, reap, pay, supply, store
Readings
On'yomi
- シュウ
Kun'yomi
- おさ.める
- おさ.まる
Nanori
- のぶ
Meaning
収 centers on bringing things in and keeping them: receiving income, obtaining resources, reaping results, paying or supplying what is due, and storing what has been gathered.
Most common words using 収
24 of 301- 収録しゅうろく
recording (in a book, the minutes, etc.); printing; including
- 収入しゅうにゅうN3
income; earnings; revenue; proceeds; takings; receipts
- 回収かいしゅうN2
collection; recovery; withdrawal; retrieval
- 収集しゅうしゅうN2
collecting; accumulating; gathering
- 吸収きゅうしゅうN3
absorption; suction; attraction
- 買収ばいしゅうN1
acquisition (esp. corporate); buy-out; takeover; purchase
- 年収ねんしゅうN1
annual income
- 収穫しゅうかくN3
harvest; crop; ingathering
- 収容しゅうようN1
accommodation; taking in; receiving; housing; seating; admission (of patients, students, etc.)
- 収めるおさめるN3
to put (into); to put away (in); to put back (in); to keep (in); to store (in); to restore (to its place)
- 収益しゅうえきN1
earnings; proceeds; returns; revenue
- 収まるおさまるN1
to fit into (a box, frame, category, etc.); to be contained within; to fall within (e.g. a budget)
- 収納しゅうのう
storage; putting away
- 徴収ちょうしゅうN1
collection (of fees, taxes, etc.); levy
- 月収げっしゅう
monthly income
- 没収ぼっしゅうN1
seizure; confiscation; impounding; sequestration; forfeiture
- 収支しゅうしN1
income and expenditure
- 領収りょうしゅうN2
receipt (of money); receiving
- 収縮しゅうしゅく
contraction; shrinking; shrinkage; constriction; deflation
- 撤収てっしゅう
removal (of a building, equipment, etc.); dismantling (e.g. a tent); striking (a stage set, camp, etc.)
- 収拾しゅうしゅうN1
control; bringing under control; settling (a matter); putting in order
- 押収おうしゅう
seizure; confiscation
- 税収ぜいしゅう
tax yields; revenue
- 収まりおさまり
conclusion; end; settlement
Study
Etymology
収 is the modern simplified form of 收. The older form combines 丩 (likely phonetic) with 攵 (a hand holding something), suggesting the idea of gathering or receiving. The modern form replaces the right side with 又, a simpler hand shape.
Meaning mnemonic
The left side 丩 looks like a container or a twisted cord, and the right side 又 is a hand. Picture a hand pulling a cord to gather things in, like reaping a harvest or collecting income.
Reading mnemonic
For シュウ, imagine a shoe store collecting income: shoe -> シュウ, and the hand 又 is gathering all the shoes into the store.