收拾

收拾 shōushi in a sentence

Tidy up (put in order)

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 7 sentences

收拾 (shōushi) means Tidy up (put in order). Below are 7 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

我正在 收拾 行李。

Wǒ zhèngzài shōushi xíngli.

I am packing my luggage.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 收拾

请把房间 收拾 一下。

Qǐng bǎ fángjiān shōushi yíxià.

Please tidy up the room.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 收拾

房间太乱了,快 收拾 一下。

Fángjiān tài luàn le, kuài shōushi yíxià.

The room is a mess; tidy it up quickly.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 乱

别发呆了,快点 收拾 东西。

Bié fādāi le, kuài diǎn shōushi dōngxi.

Stop daydreaming and hurry up and pack.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 发呆

他仓促 收拾 了行李就出门了。

Tā cāngcù shōushi le xíngli jiù chūmén le.

He packed hurriedly and went out.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 仓促

大伙儿一起动手,很快就 收拾 好了。

Dàhuǒr yìqǐ dòngshǒu, hěn kuài jiù shōushi hǎo le.

Everyone pitched in and it was tidied up in no time.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 大伙儿

听说可以提前放假,同学们巴不得马上 收拾 行李。

Tīngshuō kěyǐ tíqián fàngjià, tóngxuémen bābùdé mǎshàng shōushi xíngli.

Hearing the holiday might start early, the students could not wait to pack.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 巴不得

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Questions about 收拾

How is 收拾 used in a sentence?

This page shows 7 sentences using 收拾 (shōushi, "Tidy up (put in order)"), 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.

Is 收拾 an HSK word?

Yes — 收拾 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 收拾?

The dictionary page for 收拾 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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