The scholar gleaned fragments of old verse for his anthology.
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摭 is not used in everyday modern Chinese; it survives in the literary 摭拾 (to glean, to gather). It joins the hand radical 扌 with 庶 for the sound, the same phonetic seen in 蔗.
register
Literary only - found in formal writing and the bound word 摭拾, not in speech, where 拾 is used instead.
