verb #13,027

Meanings

  1. 1 to select
  2. 2 to choose
  3. 3 to pick

Examples

Nǐ yào shènzhòng xuǎnzé.
You should choose carefully.
Zé yōu lùqǔ.
Admit the best candidates.

Tips

usage
Common in 选择 (xuǎnzé, to choose) and 抉择 (juézé, to decide).

Components

radical
shǒu
hand (radical form of 手)
Side-hand radical on the left — the compressed form of that heads the vast picking-and-handling family ( hit, pull, grab, pick out, sort). Marks as a hand-action verb: the hand reaches in and selects one item from many.
phonetic
watching closely; here phonetic (graphic residue)
Right is a 5-stroke graphic residue of ; standalone has 13 strokes, so this is a heavy fusion of the original eye-over-fugitive picture. Across the family (, , , 驿) PRC reform replaced the full with this compact stand-in. Supplies the sound zé.

Stroke Order