PICK UP 拾起拾
TAKE FROM a LOW PLACE so as to HOLD.
Old Chinese Criteria
Modern Chinese Criteria
PICK UP
sumere refers to taking up anything in order to use it.
capere refers to laying hold of a thing in order to possess it.
prehendere refers to laying hold on anything in a mere physical sense.
excipere is to intercept or catch anything that is escaping.
recipere is to take anthing that wants protection, with a nuance of generosity.
suscipere refers to taking something as burden, with a nuance of self-denial.
Words (7 items)
拾 shí OC: ɡljub MC: dʑip 6 Attributions
Shí 拾 refers to the picking up of something that is lying where it does not really belong.
- Syntactic words
- vtoNpluck up from the ground/street
提 tí OC: ɡ-lee MC: dei 6 Attributions
Tí 提 refers to the picking up of something that is placed in its proper place on the ground.
- Syntactic words
- vt(oN)lift up, pick up (a contextually determinate N)
- vtoNGY: pick up (a drum); LIJI: lift up ceremoniously up to the level of the belt
- vtoNpassivejust be picked up with one's hands
攜 xié OC: ɡʷlee MC: ɦei 6 Attributions
Xié 攜 is to pick up something that is manifestly mobile and take it along, often even take and pull along, drag along.
- Syntactic words
- vtoNpick up and take along[hold(the hand); pull; drag along][CA]
手 shǒu OC: hmljuʔ MC: ɕɨu 2 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- vtoNgrasp; pick up
摭 zhí OC: kljaɡ MC: tɕiɛk 2 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- vtoNpluck; take out from; lunheng: pick up (in the street)
徹 chè OC: thed MC: ʈhiɛt 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- vtoNpick up, remove and gather (like bark from a tree)
搴 Click here to add pinyin OC: MC: 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- vtoNseize, grasp (a flag or banner etc), gather; pluck up