採

pick, take, fetch, take up

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

サイ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

と.る

Stroke Order

11 / 11

Information

Grade:5

Strokes:11

JLPT:N2

Frequency:607

Vocabulary

サイ

Word	Reading	Meaning
採掘	サイクツ	mining; digging; working (a mine)
採決	サイケツ	vote; ballot; division
採算	サイサン	profit
採取	サイシュ	picking; collecting; harvesting; gathering; extraction
採集	サイシュウ	collecting; gathering

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
採り上げる	とりあげる	to pick up; to adopt (a proposal); to take up (a topic); to accept; to listen to; to take issue with; to make a problem of; to bring up (as a point of criticism); to report (news); to cover; to feature; to take away; to confiscate; to deprive (someone) of; to revoke; to disqualify; to cancel; to deliver (a baby); to collect (taxes)
採り入れる	とりいれる	to take in; to gather in; to adopt (e.g. an idea); to accept (e.g. advice); to introduce (e.g. technology); to borrow (e.g. a word); to harvest; to reap; to gather in
伐採	ばっさい	felling timber; cutting down trees; logging; lumbering
採る	とる	to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.); to take (a measure, course of action, etc.); to decide on; to pick (e.g. flowers); to gather (e.g. mushrooms); to catch (e.g. insects); to extract (e.g. juice); to take (e.g. a sample); to assume (an attitude); to take on (workers, students); to employ; to hire; to draw in (e.g. water); to let in (e.g. light from a window)
採り方	とりかた	way of taking (e.g. photographs); manner of taking; how to take

Visually Similar Kanji

These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes

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rub, paint, erase

particularly, especially, exceptionally