收 shōu

1. shōu verb to receive; to accept
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 接到 or 接受 (Guoyu '收' v 4)
2. shōu verb to harvest
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '收' v 1; Unihan '收')
3. shōu verb to gather together; to collect
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 聚敛 (Guoyu '收' v 7; Unihan '收')
4. shōu verb to arrest; to take into custody
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 拘押 or 捉拿 (Guoyu '收' v 1)
5. shōu verb to finish
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 结束 or 停止 (Guoyu '收' v 12)
6. shōu verb to regain; to retake; to take back
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 收回 or 取回 (Guoyu '收' v 2)
7. shōu verb to obtain
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 获得 or 索取 (Guoyu '收' v 3)
8. shōu verb to conserve; to preserve; to keep
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 保存 or 储藏 (Guoyu '收' v 6)
9. shōu verb to tolerate; to admit
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 容纳 or 接纳 (Guoyu '收' v 8)
10. shōu verb to arrange; to tidy up
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 整理 (Guoyu '收' v 9)
11. shōu verb to bury
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 埋葬 (Guoyu '收' v 10)
12. shōu verb to purchase
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 购买 (Guoyu '收' v 11)
13. shōu verb to control; to restrict
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 控制 or 约束 (Guoyu '收' v 13)

Contained in

• 收银台(收銀台) checkout counter; cashier's desk
• 收容教育 custody and reeducation (administrative punishment for prostitutes)
• 收支 revenue and expenditure
• 照收 to receive as usual
• 收拾 to put in order; to tidy up ; to persecute; to torment ; to take care of ; to prepare
• 照单全收(照單全收) to accept without question; to take something at face value
• 收银员(收銀員) cashier
• 收成 a harvest
• 收发(收發) to receive and send; to receive and transmit
• 征收赋税(徵收賦稅) a tax collection
• 秋收 autumn harvest
• 收报员(收報員) telegraph operator
• 收取 to receive; to collect
• 收敛级数(收斂級數) convergent series
• 收缩(收縮) to pull back; to shrink; to contract ; to concentrate force ; a constriction ; a systole
• 收票员(收票員) ticket collector
• 尽收眼底(盡收眼底) to take in the whole scene at once; to have a panoramic view
• 坐收渔利(坐收漁利) benefit from others' dispute
• 收心 to concentrate on the task; to curb one's evil instincts
• 收看 to watch
• 收尾 to wind up; to bring to an end; to finish
• 不可收拾 irremediable; unmanageable; out of hand; hopeless
• 收服 to subdue; to force to capitulate; to reduce to submission; to soothe
• 收益率 earnings rate; earnings yield
• 草率收兵 to work vaguely then retreat; sloppy and half-hearted; half-baked
• 收货人(收貨人) consignee
• 秋收冬藏 harvested in the autumn, stored in the winter
• 低收入 low income
• 收音 to receive a radio signal; to make an audio recording; (of an auditorium etc) to have good acoustics; (vocal training, linguistics) ending (of a word or syllable)
• 总收益(總收益) total profit; aggregate return
• 收复失地(收復失地) to recover lost territory
• 收信 to receive a letter
• 收残缀轶(收殘綴軼) to gather and patch up something that is badly damaged
• 收存箱 delivery box; drop box
• 收拢人心(收攏人心) to win people's hearts
• 收入 income; revenue ; to take in ; to come to mind
• 收场(收場) the end; an ending; to wind down; to conclude
• 收集 to gather; to collect
• 丰收(豐收) bumper harvest
• 收购(收購) to purchase; to acquire (a company)
• 失之东隅，收之桑榆(失之東隅，收之桑榆) to lose at sunrise but gain at sunset; to compensate later for one's earlier loss
• 收房 to take as a concubine
• 收回 to regain; to retake ; to cancel; to withdraw; to revoke
• 应收账款(應收賬款) accounts receivable
• 接收机(接收機) a receiver
• 收复(收復) to recover

Also contained in

六不收 、 异频雷达收发机 、 一放一收 、 收地 、 收尾音

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Truncated for common words

• 卷五十六　列傳第四十四:　魏收 魏長賢 魏季景 魏蘭根 Volume 56 Biographies 44: Wei Shou, Wei Zhangxian, Wei Jijing, Wei Langen History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 137
• 卷三七　補列傳第二九 魏收 Volume 37 Biographies 29: Wei Shou Book of Northern Qi 北齊書 — count: 129
• 卷七十　　志第二十一: 　禮樂四 Volume 70 Treatises 23: Rites and Music 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 114
• 卷九十三 志第六十九 刑法一 Volume 93 Treatises 69: Punishment and Law 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 48
• 卷一百七十七 列傳第一百二十七: 崔慎由 崔珙 盧鈞 裴休 楊收 韋保衡 路巖 夏侯孜 劉瞻 劉瑑 曹確 畢諴 杜審權 劉鄴 豆盧瑑 Volume 177 Biographies 127: Cui Shenyou, Cui Gong, Lu Jun, Pei Xiu, Yang Shou, Wei Baoheng, Lu Yan, Xiao Houzi, Liu Zhan, Liu Zhuan, Cao Que, Bi Xian, Du Shenquan, Liu Ye, Dou Luzhan Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 43
• 卷一百八十一 志第一百三十四 食貨下三 Volume 181 Treatises 134: Finance and Economics 2c History of Song 宋史 — count: 40
• 卷104 自序 Volume 104: Author's Preface Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 40
• 卷八十一 志第五十七 食貨五 Volume 81 Treatises 57: Finance and Economics 5 History of Ming 明史 — count: 38
• 卷一百八十四　　列傳第一百零九 馬楊路盧 Volume 184 Biographies 109: Ma, Yang, Lu, Lu New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 30
• 卷一百七十六 志第一百二十九 食貨上四 Volume 176 Treatises 129: Finance and Economics 1d History of Song 宋史 — count: 29

Collocations

• 收聚 (收聚) 收聚 — Guanzi 管子, 幼官第八 Chapter 8: Young Officials — count: 8
• 蓐收 (蓐收) 金正曰蓐收 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 7
• 收谓 (收謂) 一谷不收謂之饉 — Mozi 墨子, 卷一 七患 Book 1 - The Seven Worries — count: 5
• 能收 (能收) 我能收用我衆 — Mozi 墨子, 卷五 非攻中 Book 5 - Condemnation of Offensive War II — count: 4
• 收天下 (收天下) 所連收天下之百姓不尚同其上者也 — Mozi 墨子, 卷三 尚同上 Book 3 - Identification with the Superior I — count: 4
• 收用 (收用) 彼不能收用彼衆 — Mozi 墨子, 卷五 非攻中 Book 5 - Condemnation of Offensive War II — count: 3
• 聚收 (聚收) 秋聚收 — Guanzi 管子, 四時第四十 Chapter 40: The Four Seasons — count: 3
• 夏收 (夏收) 夏收 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《郊特牲》 The Single Victim at the Border Sacrifices — count: 2
• 收秩 (收秩) 乃命四監收秩薪柴 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 2
• 收族 (收族) 敬宗故收族 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《大傳》 The Great Treatise — count: 2