Chinese Character 擇 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

擇 meaning[3] in English

To Select.

To Choose.

To Pick Over.

Main Components

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

Its radical[1] is: (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], .shou3hand

In cangjie it is written with QWLJ

How to write 擇

To writeze2to select you should write a combination of shou5'hand' radical … , yi4to spy … arranged in a shape:

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擇 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

Pinyin:ze2 Shape:
Meaning[3]: To Select . To Choose . To Pick Over . To Pick Out . To Differentiate . To Eliminate . Also Pr. [Zhai2]

Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc

Pinyin:yi4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: To Spy Out

Pinyin:wang3 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Net (Kangxi Radical 122)

Pinyin:xing4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Trusted . Intimate . (Of The Emperor) To Visit . Variant Of 幸[Xing4]

Pinyin:tu3
Meaning[3]: Tu (Ethnic Group) . Surname Tu

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Pinyin:ren3 Shape:

Pinyin:ba1
Meaning[3]: 'Eight' Component In Chinese Characters . Archaic Variant Of 八[Ba1]

Pinyin:gan4
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 乾|干[Gan1]

Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit

Pinyin:shi2
Meaning[3]: Ten . 10

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 擇in English or Chinese