捡 (jiǎn) is a Chinese word meaning “to pick up; to collect; to gather”.
Meanings
- 1to pick up; to collect; to gather
- Part of speech
- verb
Related words
捡拾to pick up; to gather捡了芝麻丢了西瓜to let go of the big prize while grabbing at trifles (idiom)捡到篮里就是菜all is grist that comes to the mill (idiom)捡尸(slang) to target an intoxicated person for sexual assault捡漏to repair a leaky roof捡骨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 storage at a different location