選

See also: 选

Translingual

Han character

選 (radical 162 辵+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜口山金 (YRUC), four-corner 3730₈)

1. choose, select
2. elect
3. election

References

• KangXi: page 1265, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39127
• Dae Jaweon: page 1761, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3886, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9078

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Cantonese

Hanzi

選 (simplified 选, Yale syun2)

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Japanese

Kanji

選

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: せん (sen), さん (san)
• Kun: えらぶ (erabu)

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Korean

Hanja

選 (hangeul 선 (seon), revised seon, McCune-Reischauer sŏn, Yale sen)

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Mandarin

simpl.		选
trad.		選

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

選 (simplified 选, Pinyin xuǎn (xuan3), Wade-Giles hsüan³)

Verb

選 (simplified, Pinyin xuǎn, simplified 选)

1. to choose; to pick; to select
2. to elect

Compounds

• tiāoxuǎn 挑選
• xuǎnjǔ 選舉
• xuǎnměi 選美
• xuǎnmín 選民
• xuǎnqū 選區
• xuǎnshǒu 選手
• xuǎnzé 選擇

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Vietnamese

Han character

選 (tuyển)