捡 — Chinese character
捡
jiǎn
to pick up, to gather, to collect
- Pinyin
- jiǎn
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 扌 佥
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 佥
- Traditional
- 撿
Common words with 捡
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 捡拾 (撿拾) | jiǎn shí | to pick up; to gather |
| 捡漏 (撿漏) | jiǎn lòu | to repair a leaky roof; (dialect) to find fault; to nitpick |
| 捡尸 (撿屍) | jiǎn shī | (slang) to target an intoxicated person for sexual assault |
| 捡骨 (撿骨) | jiǎn gǔ | bone-gathering, a custom of Fujian and Taiwan in which a son recovers the bones of his deceased father from the grave and places them in an urn for permanent st |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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