拾遗 shíyí to pocket lost property Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 拾遗 拾遺 shíyí to pocket lost property To pick up and keep items lost by others; often used in the idiom 路不拾遗 lùbùshíyí describing a safe and honest society. to remedy omissions To collect or compile missing information; to supplement or correct omissions in a book or text. [official title] A low-ranking imperial official in the Tang Dynasty responsible for advising and criticizing the emperor to prevent errors in judgment. easy task (literary) As easy as picking up a lost item; used as a metaphor for something extremely simple to achieve. gleaning To gather leftover grain after a harvest Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.401 per million Cross-References See 路不拾遗 lùbùshíyíReferenced by 正言 zhèngyán Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
拾遗 拾遺 shíyí to pocket lost property To pick up and keep items lost by others; often used in the idiom 路不拾遗 lùbùshíyí describing a safe and honest society. to remedy omissions To collect or compile missing information; to supplement or correct omissions in a book or text. [official title] A low-ranking imperial official in the Tang Dynasty responsible for advising and criticizing the emperor to prevent errors in judgment. easy task (literary) As easy as picking up a lost item; used as a metaphor for something extremely simple to achieve. gleaning To gather leftover grain after a harvest Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.401 per million Cross-References See 路不拾遗 lùbùshíyíReferenced by 正言 zhèngyán Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
