to receive / to accept / to collect / to put away / to restrain / to stop / in care of (used on address line after name)

= + : In front of the outhouse, Sherlock Holmes is proud to receive a honorary sledge hammer for his fine detective work. Everyone is so afraid of him that they hand him the sledge hammer from far away using a roast fork.

收 character breakdown

archaic variant of 糾|纠[jiu1]

This one also looks like a fork, but don't mix it up with 山, which is a normal eating fork. This one is more of a roast fork.
variant of 攴[pu1]

= 𠂉 + : Mnemonic symbol: the epitome of rapping and tapping is a sledge hammer. Petra pinguin (pu) forgot her key (𠂉) and know she's locked out of the space station (Ø1). At first she tries to open the lock with pliers (乂), but in the end she has no choice but to use the sledge hammer (攵).

Characters with 收 as component

common mallow (Malva sinesis) / variant of 蕎|荞[qiao2]

Words with 收

benefit from others' dispute (idiom)
to increase revenue / to increase income by (x amount) / to levy (a surcharge, tax increase etc) / (of a school) to have an increased student intake
rent income (esp. from arable land)
(of a stock on the stock market) to close at (a certain price)
to lose at sunrise but gain at sunset (idiom) / to compensate later for one's earlier loss / what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
net receipts / real income
paid-in capital / contributed capital (finance)
measures of national income and output

Sentences with 收

nǎ
lù
tia̅n
jiàng
 
 
qián
qù
sho̅u
fú
ya̅o
hóu