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收

shōu

gather together

Phonosemantic compound. 攵 represents the meaning and 丩 represents the sound.

Components
丩 sound component

丩  Sound component

jiū

  

join

攵 meaning component

攵  Meaning component

pū

  

tap

攵 is a component form of 攴.

Evolution

收 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
收 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
收 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

收  

shōu

gather together, collect; harvest; to receive; to accept; to collect; to put away; to restrain; to stop; in care of (used on address line after name)

Most common words with 收
Freq.
Word
Meaning

收

to receive

收到

to receive

收入

to take in

收拾

to tidy up

收集

to gather

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-kiw

syuw

shōu

collect; harvest


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 83.8860% of movies

356th most common character in movies

351st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+6536

Shuowen

“收，捕也。从攴，丩聲。”


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