收

HSK 3#834 by frequencyradical 攵

shōu["v"]

to receive; to accept; to collect; to put away; to restrain; to stop; in care of (used on address line after name)

Examples

我不能收这份礼。

I cannot accept this gift.

他正在听收音机。

He is listening to the radio.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.