拾
shíshè HSK5

pick up

拾 shí frequency
pick up verb
to pick up something from the ground or collect items

他在路边拾到一个钱包。

tā zài lù biān shí dào yī gè qián​bāo.

He picked up a wallet by the roadside.

ten verb
the banker's anti-fraud numeral for the number ten

支票上的金额写的是拾圆整。

zhī​piào shàng de jīn'é xiě de shì shí yuán zhěng.

The amount on the check is written as ten yuan exactly.

tidy up verb
to collate, arrange, or put things in order

这间屋子太乱了，你赶紧给拾一下吧。

zhèi jiān wū​zi tài luàn le, nǐ gǎn​jǐn gěi shí yī​xià ba.

This room is a mess; hurry up and tidy it up.

拾 shè
ascend steps expression
to ascend in light steps

他拾级而上，登上了山顶。

tā shè​jí'ér​shàng, dēng​shàng le shān​dǐng.

He climbed the stairs step by step and reached the mountain peak.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,961st most common 38.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,403rd most common 50.4 per million appears in 26% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.34 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
14.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+62FE

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)