Chinese Character Wiki
採

cǎi

gather

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 采 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

采 sound component

采  Sound component

cǎi, cài

  

gather, pick

Definitions

采 (採) 

cǎi

gather, collect; pick, select; to pick; to pluck; to collect; to select; to choose; to gather

Most common words with 採
Freq.
Word
Meaning

采取

to take

采访

to interview

采用

to adopt

采

to pick

采购

to purchase

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s.r̥ˤəʔ

tshojX

cǎi

gather, pluck


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 29.7133% of movies

1234th most common character in movies

585th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

采

Unicode

U+63A1


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