Chinese Character 択 Meanings and components.

Form

択

Meaning

択 meaning[3] in English

Japanese Variant Of 擇|择.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 択 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'hand' radical in … (扌) , and one of the … (尺)

Its radical[1] is: 手 (shou3) which means: Hand, (Formal) To Hold, Person Engaged In Certain Types Of Work, Person Skilled In Certain Types Of Work, Personal(Ly), Convenient, Classifier For Skill, Cl:雙|双[Shuang1],隻|只[Zhi1], .手shou3hand

In cangjie it is written with QSO

How to write 択

To write択ze2Japanese variant … you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 尺chi3one of … arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 尺 = 択

択 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 択 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 択, looks as follow:

択
Pinyin:ze2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Japanese Variant Of 擇|择
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
尺
Pinyin:chi3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: One Of The Characters Used To Represent A Musical Note In Gongche Notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[Gong1 Che3 Pu3]
尸
Pinyin:shi1
Meaning[3]: Person Representing The Dead (During Burial Ceremonies) . To Put A Corpse On Display (After Execution) . Variant Of 屍|尸[Shi1] . Corpse
㇏
Pinyin:㇏

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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