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採 — 11 strokes ／ Radical「扌」

道
6Elementary year 5 ／ 11 strokes ／ Radical「扌」
On
サイさい · sai
Kun
と(る)to(ru)
Meaning
to pick; gather; adopt (a plan)

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

扌 "hand" plus 采 "plucking fruit"; gathering with the hand — hence "to pick, to adopt."

OFFICIAL READINGS

Readings and examples

Onサイさいsai採集さいしゅう採用さいよう採光さいこう
Kunとるtoru採るとる

Compare: 取る・執る・捕る

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 採用さいよう

    adoption; hiring

  • 採点さいてん

    marking; grading

More words with this kanji

  • 採掘さいくつ
  • 採択さいたく
  • 伐採ばっさい

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

山(やま)で木(こ)の実(み)を採(と)った。

I gathered nuts in the mountains.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

採点採用採点dot用to use技skill招to inv…授to gra…接to tou…提to pre…再again災disast…妻wife殺to kil…財wealth
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 扌Map of reading サイAll maps

Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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