采
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to pick; to pluck; to collect; to select; to choose; to gather
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 釆 +1
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 埰
- Common rank
- #1,024
- Unicode
- U+91C7
Sound it out + = · + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
pick · Heisig RSH #665
vulture + 木 tree
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 采
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无精打采 | dispirited and downcast (idiom); listless; in low spirits; washed out | |
| 采取行动 | to take action; to adopt policies; to move on some issue | |
| 可采性 | (mining) workability (of deposits of coal, ore etc) | |
| 可采性 | (law) admissibility (of evidence in court) | |
| 采石场 | stone pit; quarry | |
| 应采儿 | Cherrie Ying Choi-Yi (1983–), actress | |
| 没精打采 | listless; dispirited; washed out; also written 沒精打彩|没精打彩[mei2 jing1 da3 cai3] | |
| 采地 | fief | |
| 采行 | to adopt (a system, policy, strategy etc) | |
| 采花 | to pick flowers; to enter houses at night in order to rape women | |
| 文采 | literary talent; literary grace; rich and bright colors | |
| 采出 | to extract; to mine | |
| 开采 | to extract (ore or other resource from a mine); to exploit; to mine | |
| 采风 | to collect local cultural material (recording folk songs, taking photos etc) | |
| 风采 | svelte; elegant manner; graceful bearing | |
| 多采 | variant of 多彩[duo1 cai3] | |
| 神采 | expression; spirit; vigor | |
| 光采 | variant of 光彩[guang1 cai3] | |
| 采光 | to get natural light (e.g. through a window) | |
| 可采 | (mining) recoverable; workable |
Sound family
These characters use 采 as their sound component — compare how they read.