收 shōu in a sentence
Accept (collect - receive - put away - take back)
收 (shōu) means Accept (collect - receive - put away - take back). Below are 24 of the 81 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
我今天 收 到了一封信。
Wǒ jīntiān shōudào le yì fēng xìn.
I received a letter today.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 收
请把桌子上的书 收 起来。
Qǐng bǎ zhuōzi shàng de shū shōu qǐlái.
Please put away the books on the table.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 收
请提供 收 入证明。
Qǐng tígōng shōurù zhèngmíng.
Please provide proof of income.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 证明
老师 收 走了试卷。
Lǎoshī shōu zǒu le shìjuàn.
The teacher collected the exam papers.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 试卷
这一带连年丰 收 。
Zhè yídài liánnián fēngshōu.
This area has had good harvests year after year.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 连年
请把房间 收 拾一下。
Qǐng bǎ fángjiān shōushi yíxià.
Please tidy up the room.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 收拾
这次学习 收 获很大。
Zhè cì xuéxí shōuhuò hěn dà.
I gained a lot from this course.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 收获
秋天是 收 获的季节。
Qiūtiān shì shōuhuò de jìjié.
Autumn is the harvest season.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 收获
没有 收 据不能退货。
Méiyǒu shōujù bù néng tuì huò.
Goods cannot be returned without a receipt.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 收据
身体很快吸 收 了药。
Shēntǐ hěn kuài xīshōu le yào.
The body absorbed the medicine quickly.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 吸收
他 收 集了很多资料。
Tā shōují le hěn duō zīliào.
He gathered a lot of material.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 资料
Reading these is one thing; producing 收 yourself is another. Cloze in Context takes a sentence from this same bank, removes one word and asks you to put it back — beginner, intermediate and advanced.
From the graded readers
上个月，我 收 到了一封信。
shànggèyuè, wǒ shōudào le / liǎo / liào yī fēng xìn.
Last month I received a letter.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother
新工作的 收 入只有原来的一半。
xīn gōngzuò de / dì shōurù zhǐyǒu yuánlái de / dì yībàn.
The new job paid half what the old one had.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Changing Jobs
那时候我在一家大公司工作， 收 入不错，工作也很稳定。
nàshí hòu wǒ zài yī jiā dà gōngsī gōngzuò, shōurù búcuò, gōngzuò yě hěn wěndìng.
At the time I worked for a big company with a decent salary and a stable job.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Changing Jobs
From the travel phrasebook
多 收 了我的钱。
Duō shōu le wǒ de qián.
I've been overcharged.
Travel phrasebook · Paying and mobile payment
收 到的和图片不一样。
Shōudào de hé túpiàn bù yíyàng.
What arrived isn't what the photo showed.
Travel phrasebook · Sourcing online (1688 and Alibaba)
我们 收 到货了，有问题。
Wǒmen shōudào huò le, yǒu wèntí.
The goods arrived and there's a problem.
Travel phrasebook · Quality problems and claims
收 appears in 81 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 收
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 收
How is 收 used in a sentence?
This page shows 81 sentences using 收 (shōu, "Accept (collect - receive - put away - take back)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 收 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 收 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 收 an HSK word?
Yes — 收 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 收?
The dictionary page for 收 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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