拾

Meaning

拾 centers on collecting something with the hand: picking up a dropped item, gathering scattered things, or finding something by chance. The 'ten' meaning is a separate, unrelated use as a formal numeral replacement.

• 拾うひろう
  N4

  to pick up; to gather

• 拾いひろい

  picking up; gathering; person who picks things up

• 収拾しゅうしゅう
  N1

  control; bringing under control; settling (a matter); putting in order

• 命拾いいのちびろい

  narrow escape from death

• 拾い物ひろいもの

  found article; thing picked up (e.g. in the street)

• 拾得しゅうとく
  N1

  finding (lost property); picking up

• 拾い上げるひろいあげる

  to pick up

• 拾遺しゅうい

  gleaning; gleanings

• ゴミ拾いごみひろい

  picking up trash; litter picking; litter cleanup

• ボール拾いボールひろい

  retrieving balls (during a practice session; in tennis, baseball, etc.); acting as ball boy

• モク拾いモクひろい

  gathering cigarette butts; person gathering cigarette butts

• 収拾がつかないしゅうしゅうがつかない

  out of hand; uncontrollable; out of control; messy

• 収拾がつかなくなるしゅうしゅうがつかなくなる

  to get out of hand; to become uncontrollable; to boil over

• 古語拾遺こごしゅうい

  Gleanings from Ancient Stories (Inbe no Hironari, 807 CE); historical record from the Inbe clan

• 命を拾ういのちをひろう

  to narrowly escape death; to have a narrow escape from death

• 宇治拾遺物語うじしゅういものがたり

  A Collection of Tales from Uji

• 屑拾いくずひろい

  ragpicking; ragpicker

• 年を拾うとしをひろう

  to grow old

• 御拾いおひろい

  walk; walking

• 拾い主ひろいぬし

  finder (of lost property)

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