遴 (lín): to select carefully

Meanings

1 to select carefully
2 to choose with care

Characters

遴

lín

to select carefully

Examples

公司为这个项目遴选了三名工程师。

Gōngsī wèi zhège xiàngmù línxuǎn le sān míng gōngchéngshī.

The company carefully selected three engineers for the project.

候选人要经过严格的遴选程序。

Hòuxuǎnrén yào jīngguò yángé de línxuǎn chéngxù.

Candidates are chosen through a strict screening process.

Tips

register

遴 is formal and almost always appears in 遴选 (to select carefully), common in official and recruitment contexts rather than casual speech.

Components

radical

辶 chuò

to walk; movement

The walk radical, written last in stroke order, originally pictured the difficulty of travel and now lends the idea of a careful, deliberate process of picking out.

phonetic

粦 lín

phosphorescence; will-o'-the-wisp

Supplies the sound lín exactly. The same phonetic drives 邻 and 鳞 in the lín sound family.

Stroke Order

遴 lín

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