收
shōu HSK2

gather together

收 shōu
to receive verb
to receive; to accept; to take in; also used on an address line after a name to mean "in care of"

对不起，我只收现金。

duì​bu​qǐ, wǒ zhǐ shōu xiàn​jīn.

Sorry, I only take cash.

to collect verb
to collect; to gather together; to charge a fee

很多地方只收现金。

hěn​duō dì​fang zhǐ shōu xiàn​jīn.

Many places only take cash.

(bound form) income noun
(bound form) money received; income; receipts
to put away verb
to put away; to store; to tidy up or pack away items

把玩具收起来！

bǎ wán​jù shōu qǐ lái!

Put away the toys!

to harvest nounverb
to harvest or gather in crops
to shrink verbadjective
to contract; to shrink; to close or fold (an umbrella, etc.)
to conclude verbnoun
to stop; to finish; to end an activity or a work session
to arrest nounverb
to arrest; to take into custody; to detain
to restrain
to restrain; to control; to keep one's feelings or behavior in check
to bury
to collect and bury (remains); to prepare a body for burial
surname
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
351st most common 624.8 per million
Movie subtitles
356th most common 420.8 per million appears in 84% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
96.5 per million appears in 32% of films
Written text
173.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+6536

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