采

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See also: 埰, 採, and 釆
采 U+91C7, 采
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-91C7
← 釆
[U+91C6] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 釈 →
[U+91C8]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

采 (radical 165, 釆+1, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月木 (BD), four-corner 20904, composition ⿱爫木)

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 1290, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40116
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1790, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3898, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+91C7

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 采

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 采
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
采-oracle.svg 采-bronze.svg 采-seal.svg 采-bigseal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (采) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
采 *sʰɯːʔ
睬 *sʰɯːʔ
彩 *sʰɯːʔ
採 *sʰɯːʔ
綵 *sʰɯːʔ
寀 *sʰɯːʔ
菜 *sʰɯːs
埰 *sʰɯːs
棌 *sʰɯːs

Ideogrammic compound (會意). Two forms can be found in oracle bone script:

  1. 爪 (“hand”) + 果 (“fruit”) – a hand (爪) picking fruits from a tree (果).
  2. 爪 (“hand”) + 木 (“tree”) – a hand (爪) picking from a tree (木).

The current glyph is of composition 2.

Etymology 1[edit]

Pronunciation 1[edit]

Rime
Character 采
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 咍 (41)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 倉宰切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡sʰʌiX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡sʰəiX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sʰɒiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡sʰəjX/
Li
Rong 		/t͡sʰᴀiX/
Wang
Li 		/t͡sʰɒiX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡sʰɑ̆iX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		cǎi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		coi2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 采 采
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		cǎi cǎi
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tshojX › ‹ tshojX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*s.r̥ˁəʔ/ /*s.r̥ˁəʔ/
English gather, pluck colorful

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 采
Reading # 1/1
No. 1070
Phonetic
component 		采
Rime
group 		之
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		采
Old
Chinese 		/*sʰɯːʔ/
Definitions[edit]

采

  1. to pick
  2. to choose
  3. to collect
  4. to exploit
  5. to gain
  6. to accept
    alt. forms: *採 (1~6)
  7. thing
  8. official position
  9. currency
  10. tomb
  11. color
    alt. forms: *綵, 彩
  12. colored cloth
    alt. forms: *綵, 彩
  13. literary talent
    alt. forms: 彩
  14. luster
    alt. forms: 彩
  15. beautiful in words but poor in contents
  16. complexion
  17. expression; spirit
    興高采烈／兴高采烈 (xìnggāocǎiliè)
  18. wager
  19. oak
  20. to drag
  21. to heed
    alt. forms: *採, 睬, 倸
  22. vine
  23. A surname​.
Compounds[edit]
Derived terms from 采

Pronunciation 2[edit]

Definitions[edit]

采

  1. fief
    alt. forms: *寀, 埰
  2. Alternative form of 菜 (cài).
Compounds[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of 采 – see 採 (“to select; to choose; to pick; to pick; to pluck”).
(This character, 采, is the simplified form of 採.)
Notes:

Etymology 3[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of 采 – see 彩 (“variegated colors; rich and bright colors; literary grace or grace in art; variety; gracefulness; brilliance; etc.”).
(This character, 采, is the second-round simplified form of 彩.)
Notes:

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

采

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. a die, dice

Readings[edit]

Noun[edit]

采(さい) • (sai) 

  1. a die, dice

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

采 • (chae) (hangeul 채, revised chae, McCune–Reischauer ch'ae, Yale chay)

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