採

Meaning

採 centers on reaching out to gather or select something: picking fruit, taking a sample, fetching an item, or taking up an idea.

• 採用さいよう
  N2

  use; adoption; acceptance

• 採取さいしゅ
  N1

  picking; collecting; harvesting; gathering

• 採るとる
  N3

  to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.); to take (a measure, course of action, etc.); to decide on

• 採掘さいくつ
  N1

  mining; digging; working (a mine)

• 採点さいてん
  N2

  marking; grading; scoring

• 採択さいたく
  N1

  adoption; selection; choice

• 採算さいさん
  N1

  profit

• 伐採ばっさい

  felling timber; cutting down trees; logging; lumbering

• 採決さいけつ
  N1

  vote; ballot; division

• 採集さいしゅう
  N1

  collecting; gathering

• 採れるとれる

  to be collected (of clams, etc.); to be gathered (of mushrooms, herbs, etc.); to be picked (of fruit, etc.); to be mined (of diamonds, etc.); to be extracted (e.g. oil from soybeans); to be obtained

• 採血さいけつ

  drawing blood; collecting blood

• 採石さいせき

  quarrying

• 採寸さいすん

  taking measurements

• 採光さいこう

  (natural) lighting (of an interior space)

• 採鉱さいこう

  mining

• 採録さいろく

  recording; transcription

• 採卵さいらん

  egg collection (from hens, fish, etc.)

• 採尿さいにょう

  urine sampling; urine collection

• 採譜さいふ

  transcribing in musical notation; copying down (a tune)

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