The story of 采

pick, pluck

采 depicts a hand grabbing (爪) a plant(木). However, in traditional Chinese, 採 is used instead of 采 to represent the meaning of picking up something. On the other hand, when picking flowers, we only choose the most colorful one, so 采also means color, but now we usually use 彩 instead, and 采 is only used to describe something abstract such as human nature.