cài, cǎi
gather, pick
Pictograph of a hand (爫) picking fruit from a tree (木).
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s.r̥ˤəʔ | tshojX | cǎi | gather, pluck |
*s.r̥ˤəʔ | tshojX | cǎi | colorful |
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 | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+91C7 |
Shuowen | “采,捋取也。从木,从爪。” |
Sources
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