Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- shōu
English
- gather together, collect
- to receive
- (verb) 1. to store; 2. to keep
- to receive; to accept
- harvest
- to accept
- to take something back from others; to regain
- to collect
- to gather; to collect
- to put away
- to build an affiliation
- to restrain
- to hide; to cover
- to stop
- to close; to shut; to end; to stop
- in care of (used on address line after name)
- to undo; to cancel; to withdraw; to retract
- to restrain
- to punish; to teach a lesson
粵語
- 接受；被動噉得到人哋俾嘅嘢
- 喺人哋手中攞返自己嘅嘢
- 將零散嘅物件集合起嚟
- 確立從屬關係
- 匿埋；隱藏
- 結束、停止
- 撤銷；取消；令一樣嘢唔生效
- 限制、約束
- 懲罰；教訓
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 收
- 收到sau1 dou2
to receive
- 收費sau1 fai3
to charge a fee
- 吸收kap1 sau1
to absorb
- 收益sau1 jik1
earnings
- 收藏sau1 cong4
to collect (works of art, dolls, antiques etc); to put away for safekeeping; (Internet) to bookmark
- 收拾sau1 sap6
to put in order
- 收穫sau1 wok6
to harvest
- 收市sau1 si5
to close the market (for the day)
- 收手sau1 sau2
to stop; to pull back
- 收線sau1 sin3
to reel in (a fishing line etc)
- 收山sau1 saan1
(slang) (from Cantonese) to bow out after a long career
- 收視sau1 si6
to watch TV
- 收口sau1 hau2
(knitting, basket weaving etc) to cast off; to bind
- 收容sau1 jung4
to provide a place to stay
- 查收caa4 sau1
to check for receipt of (an email, an enclosed item in a letter etc) (typically used in the polite imperative, e.g. after 請|请[qing3])
- 收聲sau1 seng1
(Cantonese) to stop talking; to shut up
- 收貨sau1 fo3
to receive delivery
- 收尾sau1 mei1
to wind up
- 收入sau1 jap6
to take in
- 收集sau1 zaap6
to gather
- 收購sau1 gau3
to purchase or acquire in bulk or at an official level (esp. by a state or organization)
- 接收zip3 sau1
reception (of transmitted signal)
- 回收wui4 sau1
to recycle
- 沒收mut6 sau1
to confiscate; to seize