Meaning & readings
pick, take, fetch, take up
Origin
This character combines a hand radical on the left, which signals an action done by hand, with the component 采 on the right that serves as a sound hint for the pronunciation. The 采 component doesn't contribute to the meaning but tells you roughly how to say the character. Together, the hand radical and sound hint create a character meaning to pick or take something by hand, since picking and gathering are natural manual actions. Over time, the meaning expanded to include the more general sense of "take" or "fetch."
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 扌
- 采
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 11
- Kangxi radical
- 64
- Grade
- Grade 5 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #607 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+063A1