Character: 拾
Modern (Beijing) reading: shí
Preclassic Old Chinese: g(h)ip
Classic Old Chinese: g(h)ip
Western Han Chinese: g(h)jǝp
Eastern Han Chinese: g(h)jǝp
Early Postclassic Chinese: g(h)jip
Middle Postclassic Chinese: g(h)jip
Late Postclassic Chinese: g(h)jip
Middle Chinese: ʒ́ip
English meaning : an archer's armlet
Russian meaning[s]: 1) десять (начертание прописью); 2) подобрать, поднять, собрать; 3) привести в порядок, прибрать; [shè] подняться на (ступеньку)
Comments: A later attested (since L.Zhou) meaning is 'to pick up, take'. The character is also attested (since L.Zhou) with the reading *g(h)ap, MC gǝp (FQ 極業) 'to change, alternate'.
Radical: 64
Four-angle index: 1178
Karlgren code: 0687 a
Jianchuan Bai: cɛ2
Dali Bai: ci2
Bijiang Bai: čher2-čer2
