Chinese symbol for “fell”
采伐
cǎi fá
Traditional: 採伐
to fell; to cut
The closest CC-CEDICT match for fell is 采伐 (cǎi fá), defined as: to fell; to cut.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “fell”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 伐 | fá | to cut down; to fell |
| 放倒 | fàng dǎo | to knock over; to knock down; to lay flat; to fell; to bring down |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 采伐.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 采用 (採用) | cǎi yòng | to adopt; to employ |
| 采取 (採取) | cǎi qǔ | to adopt or carry out (measures, policies, course of action); to take |
| 采访 (採訪) | cǎi fǎng | to interview; to gather news |
| 采购 (採購) | cǎi gòu | to procure (for an enterprise etc); to purchase |
| 开采 (開採) | kāi cǎi | to extract (ore or other resource from a mine); to exploit |
| 采集 (採集) | cǎi jí | to gather; to collect |
| 步伐 | bù fá | pace; (measured) step |
| 讨伐 (討伐) | tǎo fá | to suppress by armed force; to send a punitive expedition against |
See also: Japanese symbol for “fell”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.