Hanja Analyzer
採

採 — chae

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
캘 채
Romanization
chae
English
gather, collect; pick, select
Mandarin
cǎi
Japanese on'yomi
サイ
Japanese kun'yomi
と.る
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 5
Newspaper frequency
#607 of 2,500
Strokes
11
Radical
手 (64, 8 residual)
Phonetic component
采(채)
Unicode
U+63A1

Parts that make up 採

  • 扌 손 수variant of 手 다섯 손가락을 편 손손으로 하는 동작
  • 采 풍채 채sound 나무에서 열매를 따는 손가려 뽑는 일. ‘채’ 계열의 소리

How 採 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 採 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 手, 采.

Korean example words with 採

  • 채광採鑛 Korean gloss: 광석을 캐냄
  • 가채可採 Korean gloss: 캐낼 수 있음
  • 채금採金 Korean gloss: 금을 캐는 일
  • 채종採種 Korean gloss: 좋은 씨앗을 골라서 받음
  • 채난採暖 Korean gloss: 따뜻한 기운을 몸속에 빨아들임
  • 채근採根 Korean gloss: 어떻게 행동하기를 따지어 독촉함
  • 벌채伐採 Korean gloss: 나무를 베어 내거나 섶을 깎아 냄
  • 채육採肉 Korean gloss: 동물의 뼈나 껍데기에 붙은 살을 떼어 냄
  • 채집採集 Korean gloss: 널리 찾아서 얻거나 캐거나 잡아 모으는 일
  • 채점採點 Korean gloss: 얻은 점수에 따라 성적의 좋고 나쁨을 결정함
  • 채굴採掘 Korean gloss: 땅을 파고 땅속에 묻혀 있는 광물 따위를 캐냄
  • 채부採否 Korean gloss: 의견이나 방안을 채택하고 채택하지 아니하는 것

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 採

  • 採用さいよう use; adoption; acceptance
  • 採決さいけつ vote; ballot; division
  • 採択さいたく adoption; selection; choice
  • 採算さいさん profit
  • 伐採ばっさい felling timber; cutting down trees; logging
  • 採点さいてん marking; grading; scoring
  • 強行採決きょうこうさいけつ forced passage (of a bill, measure, resolution, etc.); railroading; steamrolling
  • 採取さいしゅ picking; collecting; harvesting
  • 採掘さいくつ mining; digging; working (a mine)
  • 採集さいしゅう collecting; gathering
  • 採石さいせき quarrying
  • 採血さいけつ drawing blood; collecting blood

Characters sharing the phonetic 采

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “채” in Korean.

Other hanja read “채”

Other hanja with radical 手

Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences