采

See also: 埰, 採, and 釆

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 爫 (“hand”) + 木 – a hand (爪, 爫) picking from a tree (木).

Han character

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

1. collect, gather
2. pick, pluck

References

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

采 (traditional 埰, 採, Jyutping coi2, coi3, Yale choi2, choi3)

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Japanese

Kanji

采

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: さい (sai)
• Kun: とる (toru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

采 (traditional 埰, 採, Pinyin cǎi (cai3), cài (cai4), Wade-Giles ts'ai³, ts'ai⁴)

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