采

See also: 埰, 採, and 釆
采 U+91C7, 采
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-91C7
← 釆
[U+91C6] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 釈 →
[U+91C8]

Translingual

Han character

采 (radical 165, 釆+1, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月木 (BD), four-corner 20904, composition ⿱爫木)

References

  • KangXi: page 1290, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40116
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1790, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3898, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+91C7

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 采

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 采
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
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

Pictogram (象形) . Two forms can be found in oracle bone script:

  1. 爪 (“hand”) + 果 (“fruit”) – a hand (爪) picking fruits from a tree (果).
  2. 爪 (“hand”) + 木 (“tree”) – a hand (爪) picking from a tree (木).

The current glyph is of composition 2.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 采
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 采 采
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cǎi cǎi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tshojX › ‹ tshojX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s.r̥ˤəʔ/ /*s.r̥ˤəʔ/
English gather, pluck colorful

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 采
Reading # 1/1
No. 1070
Phonetic
component		 采
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 采
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰɯːʔ/
Definitions

采

  1. to pick
  2. to choose
  3. to collect
  4. to exploit
  5. to gain
  6. to accept
    alt. forms: 採 (1~6)
  7. thing
  8. official position
  9. currency
  10. tomb
  11. color
    alt. forms: 綵, 彩
  12. colored cloth
    alt. forms: 綵, 彩
  13. literary talent
    alt. forms: 彩
  14. luster
    alt. forms: 彩
  15. beautiful in words but poor in contents
  16. complexion
  17. expression
  18. wager
  19. oak
  20. to drag
  21. to heed
    alt. forms: 採, 睬, 倸
  22. vine
  23. A surname​.
Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

采

  1. fief
    alt. forms: 寀, 埰
  2. Alternative form of 菜 (cài).
Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 采 – see 採 (“to select; to choose; to pick; to pick; to pluck”).
(This character, 采, is the simplified form of 採.)
Notes:

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 采 – see 彩 (“hue, colour; variegated colours”).
(This character, 采, is the second-round simplified form of 彩.)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

采

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. a die, dice

Readings

Noun

采 (hiragana さい, rōmaji sai)

  1. a die, dice

Korean

Hanja

采 • (chae) (hangeul 채, revised chae, McCune–Reischauer ch'ae, Yale chay)

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