Additional information about 拾
說文解字: 【拾】，掇也。从手、合聲。 【是執切】
- Criteria
- GATHER
1. The most current general term for the temporary assembling of things is jù 聚 (ant. sàn 散 "spread") which can refer to the gathering together of what does not necessarily belong together and of what is not necessarily of the same kind and what will disperse or be dispersed.
2. Liǎn 斂 (ant. sàn 散 "spread") refers to a human action of assembling things, prototypically taxes or the like, for future use.
3. Shí 拾 "pick up" and qǔ 取 "pick, take" can come to refer to the gathering together for future use articles of common use, but occasionally these words can also take abstract objects in which case the nuance of gathering these for future use is retained.
- PICK UP
1. Shí 拾 refers to the picking up of something that is lying where it does not really belong.
2. Tí 提 refers to the picking up of something that is placed in its proper place on the ground.
3. Xié 攜 is to pick up something that is manifestly mobile and take it along, often even take and pull along, drag along.