拾ひろう

godan verb (-u), transitive verb

pick out; select; choose

Used for picking out particular items, words, information, or points from a larger set, often selectively rather than exhaustively.

• 報ほう告こく書しょから重じゅう要ような数すう字じだけを拾ひろった。

  I picked out only the important figures from the report.

godan verb (-u), transitive verb

get unexpectedly; snatch a win; pull off

Figurative use for gaining something unexpectedly, especially luck, an opportunity, or a victory that one barely manages to obtain.

• 相あい手てのミスに助たすけられて、なんとか勝かちを拾ひろった。

  Helped by the opponent's mistake, we somehow snatched a win.

godan verb (-u), transitive verb

pick someone up; collect someone by car

Used when a driver stops somewhere to collect a person, usually in a car or similar vehicle.

• 駅えきで友とも達だちを拾ひろってから会かい場じょうへ向むかった。

  I picked up my friend at the station and then headed to the venue.

godan verb (-u), transitive verb

hail; flag down

Most common with タクシー: to find, hail, or catch a taxi on the street.

• 雨あめが強つよくなったので、大おお通どおりでタクシーを拾ひろった。

  Because the rain got heavy, I hailed a taxi on the main street.

godan verb (-u), transitive verb

pick up a signal; pick up sound; receive interference

Used for devices or systems capturing sound, radio waves, signals, noise, or interference, sometimes unintentionally.

• このマイクは周まわりの音おとをよく拾ひろう。

  This microphone picks up surrounding sounds very easily.

godan verb (-u), transitive verb

return a difficult shot; just manage to get the ball

Sports use, especially in ball games: to reach and return, dig, or save a difficult ball rather than letting it go.

• リベロが相あい手ての強きょう打だを拾ひろった。

  The libero dug up the opponent's hard spike.

godan verb (-u), transitive verb

take someone in; give someone a job; take on someone in need

Figurative use for accepting or helping someone who is in a difficult position, often by hiring them or giving them a place to belong.

• 会かい社しゃが倒とう産さんした後あと、前まえの上じょう司しが私わたしを拾ひろってくれた。

  After the company went bankrupt, my former boss took me on.

godan verb (-u), transitive verb

walk; go on foot

Rare or old-fashioned use meaning to go on foot; in ordinary modern Japanese, 歩く or 徒歩で行く is the normal wording.

• 古ふるい用よう法ほうでは、「拾ひろう」が「歩あるいて行いく」という意い味みで使つかわれることがある。

  In older usage, 拾う can be used to mean 'to go on foot.'