to ascend in light steps
to pick up / to collate or arrange / ten (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) wants to pick up (拾) a tube of glue (合) in the space station's entrance (Ø2), but last time he put it there he forgot to close the lid properly and now it is glued to the floor. He even cannot pick it up using a toy claw (扌).

拾 character breakdown

100 ml / one-tenth of a peck / measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗
to close / to join / to fit / to be equal to / whole / together / round (in battle) / conjunction (astronomy) / 1st note of pentatonic scale / old variant of 盒[he2]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a tube of glue.

= + : Just inside the elevator's kitchen, Hamlet is preparing holiday decorations. He wants to be lazy and cover Halloween as well as Christmas at the same time, so he carved out a mandarin and glued a pointed cap to its top using a tube of glue.
"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a toy claw.
variant of 合[he2]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a tube of glue.

= + : Just inside the elevator's kitchen, Hamlet is preparing holiday decorations. He wants to be lazy and cover Halloween as well as Christmas at the same time, so he carved out a mandarin and glued a pointed cap to its top using a tube of glue.

Characters with 拾 as component

拾 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 拾

once it gets started there's no stopping it
see 俯拾皆是[fu3 shi2 jie1 shi4]
to tidy up (dialect)
to pick up what others say (idiom); to pass off other people's opinions as one's own / to parrot
Shide, Tang Buddhist poet who lived at the Guoqing Temple on Mt Tiantai 天台山[Tian1 tai1 Shan1]
to find / to pick up / to collect
picked up items (i.e. lost property)
to find / to pick up / to obtain
to go up or down stairs step by step

Sentences with 拾

拾 currently does not appear in any sentence.