zhāi
เด็ด; ถอน; ลอก
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我摘了一朵花送给老师。
wǒ zhāi le yī duǒ huā sòng gěi lǎoshī.
I picked a flower and gave it to the teacher.
他摘下眼镜，仔细地看了看书。
tā zhāi xià yǎnjìng, zǐxì de kàn le kàn shū.
He took off his glasses and looked at the book carefully.
她摘了几个苹果，放进篮子里。
tā zhāi le jǐ ge píngguǒ, fàng jìn lánzi lǐ.
She picked a few apples and put them in the basket.
采 (cǎi)
pick
撷 (xié)
pluck
插 (chā)
insert
装 (zhuāng)
install
The Chinese character 摘 (zhāi) is composed of two parts: the radical 手 (shǒu), meaning "hand", and the phonetic component 翟 (dí), which is a variant of the character 翟 (dí), meaning "pheasant". The original meaning of 摘 was "to pluck feathers from a bird", which is reflected in the fact that the character is often used in words related to picking or selecting, such as 摘花 (zhāihuā, "to pick flowers") and 摘抄 (zhāichāo, "to excerpt"). In addition, 摘 can also be used in the sense of "to summarize" or "to abstract", as in 摘录 (zhāilù, "to make a summary") and 摘要是 (zhāiyào, "abstract").
