Tā yīn cái néng chūzhòng ér bèi zhuó wéi gāo guān.
He was promoted to a high office for his outstanding talent.
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擢 rarely stands alone in modern Chinese. It lives on in the literary words 擢升 ('to promote') and 擢发难数 ('crimes too many to count'). The hand radical 扌 gives the 'pull out' action; 翟 supplies the sound, the same phonetic as in 濯.
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Literary. For 'to promote' modern speech uses 提拔; 擢 belongs to formal and classical writing.
