Chinese Character Wiki

抉

jué

choose

To choose 夬 by hand 扌; 夬 also provides the pronunciation

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

夬 sound,meaning component

夬  Sound Meaning component

guài

  

parted

Evolution

抉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
抉 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
抉 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

抉  

jué

choose, select; gouge, pluck out; to pick out; to single out

Most common words with 抉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

抉择

to choose (literary)

抉

to pick out

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.3798% of movies

2682nd most common character in movies

3575th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6289

Shuowen

“抉，挑也。从手，夬聲。”


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