Chinese Character Wiki
选

xuǎn

choose

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 先 represents the sound. Simplified form of 選.

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

先 sound component

先  Sound component

xiān

  

first

Evolution

选 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
选 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

选 (選) 

xuǎn

choose, select; elect; election; to choose; to pick; to select; to elect

Most common words with 选
Freq.
Word
Meaning

选择

to select

选

to choose

选手

athlete

选举

to elect

竞选

to run for office

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 78.5199% of movies

300th most common character in movies

499th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

選

Unicode

U+9009


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