采
to pick / to pluck / to collect / to select / to choose / to gather
采
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木
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爫
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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.
采 character breakdown
(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden
"claw" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 87)
Mnemonic symbol: the strokes of this character remind me of a smiling mouth over a beard; thus, I'll represent it by an electric razor. James II of England (zh) uses his electric razor (爫) to shave his beard in the aorta's living room (ao3).
Characters with 采 as component
to pick / to pluck / to collect / to select / to choose / to gather
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.
dish (type of food) / vegetable / cuisine / CL:盤|盘[pan2],道[dao4] / (coll.) (one's) type / (of one's skills etc) weak / poor
(bright) color / variety / applause / applaud / lottery prize
Words with 采
dispirited and downcast (idiom); listless / in low spirits / washed out
in glowing spirits (idiom); bursting with life / radiating health and vigor
listless / dispirited / washed out / also written 沒精打彩|没精打彩[mei2 jing1 da3 cai3]
to mine (or harvest, log, trap animals etc) illegally / illegal mining (or logging etc)