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Kanji Detail for 采 - "color, fief, dice"
采
- Meaning
采 means "color, fief, dice."
Color - Hue; appearance.
Fief - Land granted by a lord.
Dice - Cubes used in games.
Select - To pick; to choose.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
dice; form; appearance; take; gather; coloring
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
collect, gather; pick, pluck
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
to pick; to pluck; to collect; to select; to choose; to gather
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to collect, to gather; to pick, to pluck
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To pick. As in the Book of Odes having the chapters "Picking White Clover" and "Picking Duckweed." | To select. As in 采選淑女 (selecting virtuous women). The above meanings are now commonly written as 採. | Ornament. Mixed colors are called 雜采 (variegated colors). Also, one's bearing is called 風采. Now commonly written as 彩. | In ancient times, a minister's fief was called 采. 邑采 (fief). Because officials were fed from the land, it was called 采地 (fief land). Found in the commentary to the Book of Han.
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