撮

New camera+fingers
Originally uploaded by marie scaff.

To Take a Photograph/Movie

撮（と）る - take a picture/movie
toru

• uslikati (picture)
• snimiti (movie)

撮（サツ）影（エイ） - shooting a film
satsuei

撮

See 手、最、取

「撮 = 手 + 最」
最 represents a lid and acquisition. One removes a lid and takes a little of something underneath, with one's finger tips. It came to mean "to take a little of something with one's fingertips".

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See "to take a picture" at our Picture Dictionary.

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Radical: 才（てへん）
Stroke Count: 15
音： サツ
訓： と、つま
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