掇 (duō): to pick up; to gather up

Meanings

1 to pick up; to gather up
2 to move (something) by lifting it

Characters

掇

duō

to pick up; to gather

Examples

他又惊又喜，掇进笼中。

Tā yòu jīng yòu xǐ, duō jìn lóng zhōng.

Excited and delighted, he scooped it up and put it in the cage.

把凳子掇过来坐着歇歇。

Bǎ dèngzi duō guòlái zuò zhe xiē xiē.

Move the stool over here so you can sit and rest.

Tips

usage

掇 means to pick up or gather. The common everyday compound is 拾掇 (to tidy up; to fix or repair), where the second character is pronounced toneless.

Components

radical

扌 shǒu

hand radical

The side form of the hand radical 手. Picking up and gathering are hand actions, so the hand radical carries the meaning.

phonetic

叕 zhuó

to join together

Four hands or strokes joined, supplying the sound (read 叕, shifted to duō here). Its sense of joining and collecting faintly echoes gathering things up.

Stroke Order

掇 duō

Related Words

掇臀捧屁 duōtún-pěngpì

to suck up shamelessly / to engage in crude flattery / to bootlick (literally 'lift the buttocks and praise the fart')

拾掇 shíduo #34,163

to tidy up; to clear up / to put in order; to fix; to repair / (colloquial) to deal with someone; to teach a lesson

挪开 nuókāi #9,094

to move aside; to move out of the way / to shift; to move (something) away

搬走 bānzǒu #3,982

to move away / to move out

凑 còu HSK 7-9 #5,498

to gather together / to collect / to piece together / to move close to

捡 jiǎn HSK 6 #2,611

to pick up (from the ground) / to collect; to gather

搬 bān HSK 3 #867

to move (objects from one place to another) / to relocate; to move (house)

采 cǎi HSK 7-9 #6,201

to pick; to pluck; to gather / to collect; to select / to extract; to mine

拾 shí HSK 5 #8,045

to pick up; to collect; to gather / ten (capital/banker's form, used on checks to prevent fraud)

打动 dǎdòng HSK 6 #4,872

to move (emotionally); to touch (someone's heart) / to convince; to win over