(xuǎn) - to choose, to select, to elect in Mandarin
xuǎnTraditional: 選
Translation
to choose, to select, to elect
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with the movement radical 辶 (chuò, to go) and 先 (xiān) as the phonetic element, conveying the act of going to pick out. The simplified 选 derives from the traditional 選.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 辶(movement) + 先 (xiān, phonetic)
Stroke order
选
Examples
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Which one do you choose?
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Everyone chose him as captain.
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Please select a colour you like.
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We chose this restaurant.
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Choosing the right path is half the battle.
选 (xuǎn) means to choose, select or elect. It is used when picking one option among several.
Where this fits
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 选.
Used in
Grammar articles
(4)The Mandarin 被 (bèi) Passive: Saying Something Was Done To the Subject
Mandarin Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2 / HSK 4-5): Complements, Conjunctions and the Full 了 System
The Spoken Passives 让 (ràng), 叫 (jiào) and 给 (gěi): What People Say Instead of 被
The Mandarin 者 (zhě) Suffix: 作者, 读者, 前者, and Naming the One Who Does It
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