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Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N2

607 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 11

Meaning: pick, take, fetch, take up

Kunyomi: と.る

Onyomi: サイ

Composition: 扌 采

採

Radical

Radical: 手

Reading: てへん

Meaning: hand

Strokes: 3

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Examples

Examples with audio

採算(さいさん)   profit [n.]

採血する(さいけつする)   draw blood, collect blood

採決する(さいけつする)   take a vote

採取する(さいしゅする)   pick, collect, harvest

採掘する(さいくつする)   mine [v.t.]

採点する(さいてんする)   grade (a test) [v.t.]

採用する(さいようする)   use, adopt, hire

採集する(さいしゅうする)   collect, gather

伐採する(ばっさいする)   log, deforest

採る(とる)   pick [v.t.]

Onyomi Examples

採決 (サイケツ) vote, ballot, division

採掘 (サイクツ) mining, digging, working (a mine)

伐採 (バッサイ) felling timber, cutting down trees, logging, lumbering

掘採 (クッサイ) mining

Kunyomi Examples

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)

採るべき道 (とるべきみち) course of action

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