择 - Dong Chinese dictionary

zé

select

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 𠬤 represents the sound. Simplified from 擇.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

𠬤 Sound component

yì

spy on

择 and 𠬤 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Traditional script

Modern

Simplified script

Modern

Definitions

择 (擇)

zé

select, choose, pick out; to select; to choose; to pick over; to pick out; to differentiate; to eliminate; also pr. [zhái]

Most common words with 择

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	选择	to select
	别无选择	to have no other choice
	抉择	to choose (literary)
	择	to select
	不择手段	by fair means or foul

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

箨

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 60.0833% of movies

670th most common character in movies

961st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	8
Traditional	擇
Unicode	U+62E9

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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