採

cǎi = c + ai3

to pick / to pluck / to collect / to select / to choose / to gather

采 = 木 + 爫 : Mnemonic symbol: a plectrum.

采 = 木 + 爫 : The King of Chu (c) decorated the airplane's (ai3) Christmas trees (木) with plectrums (采), now it's time to decorate himself. He selects parts of his beard to shave with an electric razor (爫), then goes on to select some of the leaves to pluck them out and put them in his partly shaved face.

採 character breakdown

採
- 扌
  - 亅
  - 二
    - 一
- 采
  - 木
    - 八
      - 丿
      - ㇏
    - 十
      - 一
      - 丨
  - 爫
    - 丿
    - ⺍
      - 小
        
        亅
        
        八
        
        丿
        
        ㇏

shǒu = sh + ou3

"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

扌 = 二 + 亅 : Mnemonic symbol: a toy claw.

cǎi = c + ai3

to pick / to pluck / to collect / to select / to choose / to gather

采 = 木 + 爫 : Mnemonic symbol: a plectrum.

采 = 木 + 爫 : The King of Chu (c) decorated the airplane's (ai3) Christmas trees (木) with plectrums (采), now it's time to decorate himself. He selects parts of his beard to shave with an electric razor (爫), then goes on to select some of the leaves to pluck them out and put them in his partly shaved face.

cǎi = c + ai3

color / complexion / looks / variant of 彩[cai3] / variant of 採|采[cai3]

cài = c + ai4

allotment to a feudal noble

Characters with 採 as component

採 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 採

to adopt or carry out (measures, policies, course of action) / to take

to pluck / to pick

to get natural light (e.g. through a window)

lighting / day lighting

to excavate / to extract (ore)

to fell / to cut

to choose a location / to frame a shot (for filming, photography etc)

stripping-to-ore ratio / stripping ratio

to extract / to mine

collect and process

(mining) workability (of deposits of coal, ore etc)

(mining) recoverable / workable

to adopt measures / to take steps

to take action / to adopt policies / to move on some issue

slope

to choose and use / to adopt (a decision)

recovery ratio

stoping (excavating ore using stepped terraces) / to extract ore / extraction / to pull back

Friedrich Nietzsche (1846-1900), German philosopher

Cherrie Ying Choi-Yi (1983-), actress

Sentences with 採

採 currently does not appear in any sentence.