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Originating from a composite ideograph that depicts a hand poised above a tree, the character "采" integrates the component for claw or hand "爪" with that for tree "木" to illustrate the concrete action of picking or harvesting, a structure that has remained consistent in its core form. Its primary sense of physically gathering produce from plants naturally extended to metaphorically capturing or selecting abstract elements, such as collecting information or adopting methods, while through phonetic borrowing and semantic extension it additionally acquired connotations related to color and outward expression, as observed in terms denoting vitality or appearance. The traditional variant "採", which incorporates the hand radical to explicitly emphasize the manual action, represents a more specified form for the verb, yet the original construction continues to carry these layered meanings, reflecting a gradual conceptual broadening from literal extraction to figurative and descriptive uses.
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妈妈采了很多水果。
他喜欢采蘑菇。
我们在公园里采花。
记者采访了那位明星。
公司采取了一项新政策。
采购部门负责购买办公用品。
她的风采吸引了所有人的目光。
在做出决定之前，我们必须采集更多数据。