採

Information about character(s)

Radical: 手
Radical Strokes: 4
Additional Strokes: 8
Total Strokes: 11
Simplified Form: 采

Pronunciation

Pinyin: cǎi
Cantonese: coi2
JapaneseKun: TORU
JapaneseOn: SAI
Korean: CHAY
Vietnamese: thái

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: gather, collect; pick, select

CE-Dict: to pick/to pluck/to collect/to select/to choose/to gather

Soothill: To pick, gather, choose.

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.to pick; to pluck
2.to mine
3.to select

1.to pick; to pluck; to gather
2.to mine; to extract
3.to adopt; to select
4.complexion; spirit

朗道漢英字典 - Lang Dao: cull; extract; pick; pluck

懶蟲簡明漢英詞典: pick; cull; pluck

康熙字典文字版 【卯集中】【手字部】採
【唐韻】倉宰切【集韻】【韻會】【正韻】此宰切，𠀤同采。摘也，取也，㩜也。【戰國策】芻牧薪採，莫敢闚東門。【註】大者薪，小者採。【晉書·劉琨傳】古語云：山有猛獸，藜藿爲之不採。【唐書·地理志】開元二十一年，置十五採訪使檢察，如漢刺史之職。◎按採本从爪从木，爪即手也。後人又加手作採。