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cǎi

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Shuowen

踩 (cǎi) combines the foot radical 足 with the phonetic 采; the oracle bone form shows a foot beside a hand picking something, suggesting the action of placing one's foot upon an object, giving the meaning 'to step on' or 'to trample'.

Pinyin

cǎi· HSK 2