zhí
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to pick up; to gather selectively (classical)

Examples

学者摭拾古诗残句编成选集
Xuézhě zhíshí gǔshī cánjù biānchéng xuǎnjí.
The scholar selectively gathered, 摭拾, fragments of old verse for his anthology.

Tips

history
is not used in everyday modern Chinese; it survives in the literary 摭拾 (to glean, to gather). It joins the hand radical with for the sound, the same phonetic seen in .
register
Literary only — found in formal writing and the bound word 摭拾, not in speech, where is used instead.

Components

radical
shǒu
hand
Side-hand radical , the left form of . Picking and gathering are hand actions, so takes this radical, like and .
phonetic
shù
numerous; common people
on the right supplies the sound frame for the zhí reading. The same phonetic appears in (sugarcane).

Stroke Order

zhí