取舍

取捨

qǔshě

verb #31,481

Meanings

1 to choose; to make a tradeoff
2 to decide what to keep and what to discard
3 to weigh options

Characters

to give up; discard

Examples

做决定时要懂得取舍。

Zuò juédìng shí yào dǒngde qǔshě.

When making decisions, you must know how to make tradeoffs.

他在事业和家庭之间难以取舍。

Tā zài shìyè hé jiātíng zhījiān nányǐ qǔshě.

He struggled to choose between career and family.

Tips

memory

取 'take' + 舍 'discard' — a perfectly antonymic compound that means 'pick what to take, drop the rest.' Like English 'tradeoff,' it implies you can't have both. Often in: 有所取舍 'make selective choices,' 难以取舍 'hard to choose.'

Stroke Order

取 qǔ

舍 shě