音読み: シュウ・ジュウ
訓読み: ひろう
画数: 9
部首: 扌（てへん）
Meaning
Pick Up
- Basic forms
- 拾う — to pick up / to gather / base form
- 拾います — (I) pick up / masu form
- 拾った — picked up / ta form
- 拾って — pick up and …; please pick up / te-form
- 拾わない — do not pick up / negative form
- 拾えば — if (you) pick up / conditional
- 拾え・拾いなさい — pick it up! / imperative
- Other common forms
- 拾いたい — want to pick up / 〜たい form
- 拾える — can pick up / potential
- 拾えた — was able to pick up / past potential
- 拾えない — cannot pick up / negative potential
- More
- 拾おう — let’s pick up / 〜よう form
- 拾わなかった — didn’t pick up / past negative
- 拾っている — is picking up; has picked up / progressive
拾う（ひろう） is a godan verb ending in う. The stem shifts as う → い → っ, giving forms like 拾う・拾います・拾って・拾った. Often used for physically picking something up, or figuratively “picking up” information or opportunities.
- 拾う — to pick up
- 拾得物 — lost and found item
- 拾万円 — 100,000 yen
- 拾遺 — supplement, addendum
拾 uses the hand radical and conveys the action of reaching out and collecting something, whether physical like an object or abstract like information or points.
道でお金を拾いました。
I picked up some money on the street.
拾った物は警察に届けましょう。
Let’s turn in what we found to the police.
拾得 — finding and picking up (lost property)