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拾得

Mandarin · pinyin shí dé#

to find
to pick up
to collect

Mandarin · pinyin Shí dé#

Shide, Tang Buddhist poet who lived at the Guoqing Temple on Mt Tiantai 天台山 Tiān tāi Shān

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拾: shí · pick up, collect, tidy up; accounting form of the numeral ten
得: dé · obtain, get, gain, acquire

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2–2 · shi2 de2

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verb

to pick up; to collect; to gather; to find

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