擇

See also 択, and 择

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 睪

Han character

擇 (radical 64 手+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 手田中十 (QWLJ), four-corner 5604₁)

1. select, choose, pick out

Derived terms

• 蘀, 籜

References

• KangXi: page 458, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12796
• Dae Jaweon: page 806, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1969, character 4
• Unihan data for U+64C7

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Cantonese

Hanzi

擇 (simplified 择, Yale jaak6)

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Japanese

Kanji

擇

Readings

• On: たく (taku), えき (eki)
• Kun: えらぶ (erabu), やぶれる (yabureru)

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Korean

Hanja

擇 (hangeul 택, revised taek, McCune-Reischauer t'aek, Yale thayk)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

擇 (simplified 择, pinyin zé (ze2), Wade-Giles tse²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

擇 (trạch)