擢 (zhuó) · to pull out; to draw out

Meanings

1 to pull out; to draw out
2 to promote; to select for office

Characters

擢

zhuó

to pull out; to promote (literary)

Examples

HSK 7-9

他因才能出众而被擢为高官。

Tā yīn cáinéng chūzhòng ér bèi zhuó wéi gāoguān.

He was promoted to a high office for his outstanding talent.

Tips

history

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.

register

Literary. For 'to promote' modern speech uses 提拔; 擢 belongs to formal and classical writing.

Components

radical

扌 shǒu

hand

扌 is the left-side form of 手 (hand). It supplies the core action of 擢: pulling something out by hand, extended to 'drawing up' a person into office.

phonetic

翟 dí

phonetic element

翟 supplies the reading for 擢, with the sound drifting; it is the same phonetic seen in 濯 and 跃.

Stroke Order

擢 zhuó

Related Words

拔 bá HSK 7-9 #2,896

to pull up; to pull out; to uproot / to select; to promote; to stand out

抽 chōu HSK 5 #1,379

to draw out / to pull out / to smoke (cigarettes) / to extract

抽出 chōuchū #8,273

to draw out; to pull out / to find (time); to set aside

撤离 chèlí HSK 7-9 #4,986

to withdraw; to evacuate / to pull out (from a location)

挨 ái HSK 7-9 #5,027

to suffer; to endure (something unpleasant) / to pull through; to drag out (hard times) / to delay; to stall; to dawdle

拔掉 bádiào #9,166

to pull out; to unplug; to extract / to remove by pulling

彻头彻尾 chètóu-chèwěi #9,186

through and through / from beginning to end / out-and-out; thoroughly

避开 bìkāi #4,764

to avoid / to steer clear of / to get out of the way

操纵 cāozòng HSK 7-9 #4,413

to operate; to control (a machine) / to manipulate; to pull strings

撤退 chètuì HSK 7-9 #4,041

to retreat / to withdraw / to pull back