(zé) - to choose, to pick (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
zéTraditional: 择
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Translation
to choose, to pick (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the hand radical 扌 gives the meaning of picking out by hand, while the right-hand element 睪 supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 扌 (hand radical) + 睪 (phonetic)
Stroke order
择
Examples
艰。
This is a difficult choice.
。
You have to make a choice.
。
He chose to stay.
。
Please choose a colour.
。
He chose a new path.
择 (zé) means to choose or pick. It is a bound morpheme in modern Mandarin and chiefly appears in 选择 (xuǎn zé), to choose.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 择.
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