Chinese Character Wiki
揀

jiǎn

choose

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 柬 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

柬 sound component

柬  Sound component

jiǎn

  

letter

Definitions

拣 (揀) 

jiǎn

choose; select; pick up; gather; to choose; to pick; to sort out; to pick up

Most common words with 揀
Freq.
Word
Meaning

拣

to choose

挑三拣四

to be picky

挑拣

to select

拣选

to select

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤr[a]nʔ

keanX

jiǎn

select


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.5469% of movies

2816th most common character in movies

2965th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

拣

Unicode

U+63C0


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