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採

採

See also: 采

Translingual

Han character

採 (radical 64 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手月木 (QBD), four-corner 52094, composition ⿰扌采)

  1. gather, collect
  2. pick, pluck, select

References

  • KangXi: page 438, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12274
  • Dae Jaweon: page 788, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1901, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+63A1

Chinese

trad. 採
simp. 采

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 採
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 採
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cǎi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tshojX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s.r̥ˤəʔ/
English gather, pluck

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 採
Reading # 1/1
No. 1073
Phonetic
component		 采
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 采
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰɯːʔ/
Notes 俗採字見史記

Verb

採

  1. to select; to choose; to pick
  2. to pick; to pluck

Japanese

Kanji

採

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to gather, to collect, to take

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

採 (thái, thám, thăm, thớm, xăm, xom, xái, thải)

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