採

See also: 采

Translingual

Han character

採 (radical 64 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手月木 (QBD), four-corner 5209₄, composition ⿰扌采)

1. gather, collect
2. pick, pluck, select

References

• KangXi: page 438, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12274
• Dae Jaweon: page 788, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1901, character 1
• Unihan data for U+63A1

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Chinese

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trad.		採
simp.		采

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cǎi (cai³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄞˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): coi²
• Min Nan (POJ): chhái

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: cǎi
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄞˇ
    • Wade-Giles: ts'ai³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsae
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaɪ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: coi²
    • Yale: chói
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoi²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔːi̯³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhái
    • Tâi-lô: tshái
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰaɪ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰaɪ⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (採, reconstructed)
Character (採), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 清 (14) Final: 咍 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 倉宰切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡sʰʌiX/	/t͡sʰɑ̆iX/	/t͡sʰᴀiX/	/t͡sʰəiX/	/t͡sʰəjX/	/t͡sʰɒiX/	/t͡sʰɒiX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (採, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
採								cǎi								‹ tshojX ›								/*s.r̥ ˤəʔ/								gather, pluck
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
採					1073					采					之					0					采					/*sʰɯːʔ/					俗採字見史記

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Japanese

Kanji

採

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. to gather, to collect, to take

Readings

• Goon: さい (sai)
• Kan’on: さい (sai)
• Kun: とる (採る, toru)

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Korean

Hanja

採 (chae) (hangeul 채, revised chae, McCune-Reischauer ch'ae, Yale chay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

採 (thái, thám, thăm, thớm, xăm, xom, xái, thải)

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