Read Edit View history 拾遗 shíyí to pocket lost property Origin Definitions Defs 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)