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Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition


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jiǎn
    jian3
chien
 ken
to pick up; to collect; to gather
To check, revise, gather.

撿屍


捡尸

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jiǎn shī
    jian3 shi1
chien shih
(slang) to target an intoxicated person for sexual assault

撿情


捡情

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jiǎn qíng
    jian3 qing2
chien ch`ing
    chien ching
 kenjō
to rein in one's senses

撿拾


捡拾

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jiǎn shí
    jian3 shi2
chien shih
to pick up; to gather

撿挍


捡挍

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jiǎn jiào
    jian3 jiao4
chien chiao
 kengyō
To check, tally.

撿校


捡校

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jiǎn xiào
    jian3 xiao4
chien hsiao
 kengyō
to inspect

撿漏


捡漏

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jiǎn lòu
    jian3 lou4
chien lou
to repair a leaky roof; (dialect) to find fault; to nitpick; (slang) to score a bargain (esp. when the seller is unaware of the item's true value); (slang) to take advantage of an unexpected opportunity

撿骨


捡骨

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jiǎn gǔ
    jian3 gu3
chien ku
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

收撿


收捡

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shōu jiǎn
    shou1 jian3
shou chien
 shuken
to store away

四句推撿


四句推捡

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sì jù tuī jiǎn
    si4 ju4 tui1 jian3
ssu chü t`ui chien
    ssu chü tui chien
 shiku suiken
The four-phrase classification that phenomena are 自因 self-caused, 他因 caused by another, 共因 by both, 無因 by neither; cf. 四不生.

Variations:
検校
撿挍

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 kengyou; kenkou / kengyo; kenko
    けんぎょう; けんこう
(1) (hist) (See 盲官) highest-ranking blind court official; (2) (hist) temple administrator; shrine administrator; (3) (hist) administrator of a manor; (noun/participle) (4) (archaism) inspection; inspector

撿到籃裡就是菜


捡到篮里就是菜

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jiǎn dào lán lǐ jiù shì cài
    jian3 dao4 lan2 li3 jiu4 shi4 cai4
chien tao lan li chiu shih ts`ai
    chien tao lan li chiu shih tsai
all is grist that comes to the mill (idiom)

撿了芝麻丟了西瓜


捡了芝麻丢了西瓜

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jiǎn le zhī ma diū le xī guā
    jian3 le5 zhi1 ma5 diu1 le5 xi1 gua1
chien le chih ma tiu le hsi kua
to let go of the big prize while grabbing at trifles (idiom)

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 13 results for "撿" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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