伐採

Japanese

伐採 (bassai): a tree that has been felled for logging.
Kanji in this term
伐 採
ばつ > ばっ
Grade: S
さい
Grade: 5
on’yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese compound 伐採/伐采 (bjot tshojX, literally “attack, strike + gather”). More commonly encountered in modern Mandarin with the characters in the reverse order, as traditional 採伐/采伐 (cǎifá) and simplified 采伐 (cǎifá, “to fell / to cut”).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ばっさい [bàssáí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ba̠sːa̠i]

Noun

伐(ばっ)採(さい) • (bassai) 

  1. logging

Verb

伐(ばっ)採(さい)する • (bassai suru) transitive suru (stem 伐(ばっ)採(さい)し (bassai shi), past 伐(ばっ)採(さい)した (bassai shita))

  1. to cut down (trees), to fell
    森林(しんりん)の立木(たちき)を伐採(ばっさい)する
    shinrin no tachiki o bassai suru
    to fell timber from the forest

Conjugation

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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