I picked up a sparkling stone on the side of the road.
拾
pick up, gather, find, go on foot, ten
Kanji
Grade
Grade 3
Strokes
9 strokes
Radical
扌部
On'yomi (Chinese Reading)
シュウ, ジュウ
Kun'yomi (Japanese Reading)
ひろう
Nanori (Name Reading)
とお, ひろ
Common Readings
シュウ, ジュウ, ひろ…う
Example sentences
I picked up a stone lying on the side of the road.
He picked up the trash that was lying on the ground.
He carefully picked up the shards of the broken glass.
It took a long time to bring the chaotic situation under control.
In the meeting, everyone expressed their opinions at once, and things became uncontrollable.
Thanks to the seatbelt, I barely escaped death in the accident.
Every morning, volunteer trash collection is carried out in the park.
I participated in the neighborhood trash collection.
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