選

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See also: 选
選 U+9078, 選
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9078
← 遷
[U+9077] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 遹 →
[U+9079]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

選 (radical 162, 辵+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜口山金 (YRUC), four-corner 37308, composition ⿺辶巽)

References[edit]

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

Chinese[edit]

trad. 選
simp. 选

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (巽) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
撰 *sɡroːnʔ, *sɡronʔ
饌 *sɡroːnʔ, *sɡrons
譔 *skʰon, *sɡronʔ, *sɡrons
鐉 *skʰon
選 *sqʰonʔ, *sqʰons
繏 *sqʰons
潠 *sqʰons, *sqʰuːns
蟤 *skron
僎 *sɡronʔ, *sɡrons, *skun
襈 *sɡrons, *ɡrons
巽 *sqʰuːns
簨 *sqʰunʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sqʰonʔ, *sqʰons) and ideogrammic compound (會意): semantic 辵 + phonetic 巽 (OC *sqʰuːns).

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • suang2 - Shantou;
  • suêng2 - Chaozhou.
Rime
Character 選 選
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 心 (16) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 仙 (78) 仙 (78)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 思兖切 息眷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/siuᴇnX/ /siuᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/sʷiɛnX/ /sʷiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/sjuænX/ /sjuænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/swianX/ /swianH/
Li
Rong 		/siuɛnX/ /siuɛnH/
Wang
Li 		/sĭwɛnX/ /sĭwɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/si̯wɛnX/ /si̯wɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xuǎn xuàn
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 選 選 選
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xuǎn xuǎn xuàn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ sjwenX › ‹ sjwenX › ‹ sjwenH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[s]o[n]ʔ/ /*[s]o[r]ʔ/ /*[s]o[n]ʔ-s/
English choose; count count (v.) even, orderly

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 選 選
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 14157 14158
Phonetic
component 		巽 巽
Rime
group 		元 元
Rime
subdivision 		3 3
Corresponding
MC rime 		選
Old
Chinese 		/*sqʰonʔ/ /*sqʰons/

Definitions[edit]

選

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

Synonyms[edit]

Dialectal synonyms of 選 (“to choose”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 選, 擇
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 選擇
Mandarin Beijing 選
Singapore 選
Cantonese Guangzhou 揀
Hong Kong 揀
Taishan 揀
Singapore 揀
Hakka Sabah 揀
Min Nan Xiamen 揀, 選
Quanzhou 揀, 選
Zhangzhou 揀, 選
Singapore (Hokkien) 選, 揀
Philippines (Manila Hokkien) 揀, 選
Singapore (Teochew) 揀
Wenchang 揀
Xiang Changsha 揀

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 選

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

選

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Noun[edit]

Kanji in this term
選
せん
Grade: 4
on’yomi

選(せん) • (sen) 

  1. selection
  2. choice
  3. choosing

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

  1. selection
  2. choice
  3. elect
  4. distinguish

Compounds[edit]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

選 (tuyển)

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