采 - cǎi - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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採 (采)

cǎi

Definition

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

Character Decomposition

Related words (50)

purchase; buy

to fell; to cut

lighting; day lighting

to extract; to mine

collect and process

to buy on a considerable scale; to purchase; to procure; to stock up

採取

cǎi qǔ

to adopt (measures, policies, course of action); to carry out (measures, policies, course of action); to take; to resort; to assume; to implement

slope

collect and record

to choose and use; to adopt (a decision)

採掘

cǎi jué

to excavate; to extract (ore)

to pluck; to pick

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

heating

fruit picking

sampling

oil extraction; oil recovery

採煤

cǎi méi

coal mining; coal extraction; coal cutting

to dive for pearls

to use; to adopt; to employ

mining

seed collecting

to accept; to adopt

tree tapping

to pick flowers; to enter houses at night in order to rape women

採訪

cǎi fǎng

to interview; to gather news; to hunt for and collect; to cover

to collect evidence

to procure (for an enterprise etc); to purchase

fief; benefice

to gather; to collect; to harvest

採風

cǎi fēng

to collect local cultural material (recording folk songs, taking photos etc)

採食

cǎi shí

to forage; to gather for eating; to pick and eat

recovery ratio

sampling rate

cotton picker

stone pit; quarry

mining

sandpit; sand quarry

(lit.) flower thief; (fig.) rapist

採購員

cǎi gòu yuán

buyer; purchasing agent

buyer

to adopt measures; to take steps

採取行動

cǎi qǔ xíng dòng

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

採花大盜

cǎi huā dà dào

(lit.) flower thief; (fig.) rapist

採訪記者

cǎi fǎng jì zhě

investigative reporter

回採

huí cǎi

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

開採

kāi cǎi

to extract (ore or other resource from a mine); to exploit; to mine

盜採

dào cǎi

to mine (or harvest, log, trap animals etc) illegally; illegal mining (or logging etc)

剝採比

bō cǎi bǐ

stripping-to-ore ratio; stripping ratio

現場採訪

xiàn chǎng cǎi fǎng

on-the-spot interview

Idioms (1)

採蘭贈芍

cǎi lán zèng sháo

(lit.) pick orchids and present peonies (idiom); fig. presents between lovers

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