漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
選: elect, select
Also: choose, prefer
JLPT N315 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
⻌ carries the meaning · 巽 gives the sound
15 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
センsen · on'yomi · in compounds
- 選択するせんたくするchoose
- 選考するせんこうするscreen, select [v.t.]
- 当選するとうせんするbe elected
- 抽選するちゅうせんするdraw (of lots)
- 選挙せんきょelection
- 選手せんしゅplayer
- 予選よせんpreliminaries, try-outs
えらぶerabu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 選ぶえらぶchoose
Also read える, よる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)止 (meaning) + 巽 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 選 (rev. 92257889), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“This swooping radical is the winding road you walk upon! It curves under the rest of the kanji like a path being carved through a landscape.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 选 · traditional, as in Japanese · xuǎn
Japan keeps the traditional form 選; mainland China simplifies it to 选.
- Simplified
- 选 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 選 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xuǎn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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