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拾

shí
verb/number HSK 5 #8,045

Meanings

  1. 1 to pick up; to collect; to gather
  2. 2 ten (capital/banker's form, used on checks to prevent fraud)

Examples

他拾起地上的钱包。
Tā shí qǐ dì shàng de qiánbāo.
He picked up the wallet on the ground.
拾金不昧是好品德。
Shí jīn bú mèi shì hǎo pǐndé.
Returning found money is a good virtue.
支票上写的是'拾万元'。
Zhīpiào shàng xiě de shì 'shí wàn yuán'.
The check says 'one hundred thousand yuan' (using the formal character).

Tips

usage
拾 as 'pick up' is more literary than 捡 (jiǎn). In everyday speech, people say 捡起来 rather than 拾起来. But the idiom 拾金不昧 always uses 拾.
usage
As an anti-fraud number, 拾 = 10 (instead of 十). It's harder to alter on checks because it has more strokes. Other banker's numbers: 壹贰叁肆伍陆柒捌玖拾.

Stroke Order

拾 shí