拾い
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. picking up; gathering; person who picks things up
Noun
2. type-picking
3. walking (Honorific, as お〜)
Kanji used
Pitch accent
ひろい
Used in vocabulary
拾い物
found article; thing picked up (e.g. in the street); (lucky) find; piece of good luck; windfall; bargain
Noun
拾い読み
reading only the important parts; reading here and there; skimming through; browsing; reading word by word; reading only the parts one can understand
Noun
球拾い
retrieving balls (during a practice session; in tennis, baseball, etc.); acting as ball boy; ball boy; player (in a tennis club, etc.) assigned the role of ball boy
Noun