| zhāi | to take/to borrow/to pick (flowers, fruit etc)/to pluck/to select/to remove/to take off (glasses, hat etc) |
| 摘 | to take to borrow to pick (flowers, fruit etc) |
| 摘下 | to tear down |
| 摘借 | to borrow money |
| 摘发 | select and publish |
| 摘取 | to pluck to take |
| 摘句成章 | to put sentences together in a composition |
| 摘帽 | lit. to take off a hat fig. to be cleared of an unfair charge rehabilitation |
| 摘帽子 | lit. to take off a hat fig. to be cleared of an unfair charge rehabilitation |
| 摘引 | quote |
| 摘录 | to extract to excerpt |
| 摘录者 | abstractor |
| 摘抄 | to extract to excerpt |
| 摘报 | make a summary report |
| 摘报编辑 | an exchange editor |
| 摘桂 | take the crown; win the title |
| 摘桃子 | pick peaches |
| 摘棉机 | cotton picker; cotton harvester; cotton sled; cotton-picking machine |
| 摘棉铃机 | cotton harvesting sled |
| 摘牌 | delisting (of company on stock market) |
| 摘由 | high points (of a document) resume |