• to pick;
  • to gather;
  • appearance;
  • color;
  • style;

Etymology

A compound ideographcomposed of:

— hand or claw

— tree It depicts the action of picking something (like fruit) from a tree by hand, giving the original meaning “to gather or pluck.”
Semantic development: - to pick or gather (from a tree); - to select or adopt; - appearance or bearing; - color, brightness, or style.

Usage in Korean

풍채 (風采) — appearance; bearing

문채 (文采) — literary elegance; style

Additional notes

采 serves as the base form for several derived characters (, , 睬), each specifying a particular meaning.
Related characters: — to pick; to gather (with hand radical)

— color; brilliance

睬 — to notice; to pay attention

These characters clarify different meanings derived from 采.

Similar shape characters

Although visually similar to (나눌 변), it belongs to the radical group.

풍채
pungchae
chae
Kangxi radical:165, + 1
Strokes:8
Unicode:U+91C7
Cangjie input:
  • 月木 (BD)
Composition:
  • ⿱ 爫 木

Neighboring characters in the dictionary

References

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