Put in order in Chinese
to put in order · HSK 4
收拾
- 收 to receive
- 拾 to pick up
我得收拾一下房间。 I need to tidy up my room.
Other ways to say put in order
More words with 收 or 拾
How do you say put in order in Chinese?
Put in order in Chinese is 收拾 (shōu shi). You can also say 整理 (zhěng lǐ), 清理 (qīng lǐ), 整 (zhěng).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.