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Kanji Detail for 採 - "to pick, to adopt"

採

  • Meaning

    採 means "to pick, to adopt." Also associated with to select.

    1. Pick - To pluck; to gather by hand.

    2. Select - To choose; to pick out.

    3. Adopt - To take up; to embrace an idea.

  • Words using 採

    • 採用 さいよう Listen use; adoption; acceptance
    • 採決 さいけつ Listen vote; ballot; division
    • 採択 さいたく Listen adoption; selection; choice
    • 採算 さいさん Listen profit
    • 伐採 ばっさい Listen felling timber; cutting down trees; logging
    • 採点 さいてん Listen marking; grading; scoring
    • 強行採決 きょうこうさいけつ Listen forced passage (of a bill, measure, resolution, etc.); railroading; steamrolling
    • 採取 さいしゅ Listen picking; collecting; harvesting

  • Four-character idioms with 採

    • 採長補短 さいちょうほたん Listen compensating for one's shortcomings by incorporating others' strong points

  • Tattoo check: 採

    • Verified meaning: to pick, to adopt
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: to select

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    pick; take; fetch; take up

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    gather, collect; pick, select

    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. Such as 採蓮, 採菊. | Selecting and taking is 採. Such as 採訪, 採選.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    sai(サイ) サイ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    to.ru(と-る) と-る

  • Strokes

    tip

    11 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    手 扌 (te・tehen)

  • Related Keywords

    to pick to select to adopt take gather collect choose extract harvest pluck glean cull obtain recruit embrace

Sentences including 採

  • You ought to have adopted his plan.

  • This room doesn't get a lot of sun.

  • He adopted her idea.

  • We should adopt his proposal.

  • My plan was adopted by them.

  • The plan was adopted at the meeting.

  • We have decided to adopt your idea.

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