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择

zé

HSK 3 Character Traditional 擇

What 择 means

1. to select
2. to choose
3. to pick over
4. to pick out
5. to differentiate
6. to eliminate
7. also pr. zhái

Example sentences

• 选择。
  Choose.
• 你有选择。
  You do have choices.
• 从中选择一人。
  Cóngzhōng xuǎnzé yī rén.
  Choose one person.
• 做出您的选择。
  Make your choice.
• 请选择一个人。
  Please choose one person.
• 这是你的选择。
  It's your decision.

Words starting with 择

• 择偶zé ǒuto choose a spouse
• 择日zé rìto fix a date (for an event); to select an auspicious date
• 择定zé dìngto select
• 择机zé jīat the right time; when appropriate
• 择不开zhái bu kāiimpossible to separate; impossible to disentangle; cannot take time out
• 择日子zhái rì zito pick an auspicious day
• 择食zé shíto be picky (food)
• 择善而从zé shàn ér cóngto choose the right course and follow it (idiom)
• 择善固执zé shàn gù zhíto choose what is good and hold fast to it (idiom)
• 择菜zhái càito pick the edible part of vegetables
• 择刺zhái cìto pick out the bones in a fish
• 择日不如撞日zé rì bù rú zhuàng rìlit. carefully setting an auspicious date does not beat seizing an opportunity (idiom)…

Words containing 择

• 选择xuǎn zéto select; to pick; choice; option; alternative
• 不择手段bù zé shǒu duànby fair means or foul; by hook or by crook; unscrupulously
• 抉择jué zéto choose (literary)
• 别无选择bié wú xuǎn zéto have no other choice
• 选择性xuǎn zé xìngselective; selectiveness; selectivity
• 天择tiān zénatural selection
• 采择cǎi zéto choose and use; to adopt (a decision)
• 选择题xuǎn zé tímultiple-choice question
• 不加选择bù jiā xuǎn zéindiscriminate
• 口不择言kǒu bù zé yánto speak incoherently; to ramble; to talk irresponsibly
• 口无择言kǒu wú zé yánto say not a word that is not appropriate (idiom); wrongly used for 口不择言
• 自然选择zì rán xuǎn zénatural selection
• 自由选择权zì yóu xuǎn zé quánfree agency
• 张择端Zhāng Zé duānZhang Zeduan (1085-1145), Song dynasty painter
• 物竞天择wù jìng tiān zénatural selection
• 特异选择tè yì xuǎn zéspecial choice; special reserve
• 饥不择食jī bù zé shíwhen hungry, you can't pick what you eat (idiom); beggars can't be choosers…
• 良禽择木liáng qín zé mùa fine bird chooses a tree to nest in (proverb); fig. a talented person chooses a patron…
• 拣择jiǎn zé(literary) to select; to choose
• 良禽择木而栖liáng qín zé mù ér qīa fine bird chooses a tree to nest in (proverb); fig. a talented person chooses a patron…
• 拣饮择食jiǎn yǐn zé shíto choose one's food carefully; to be picky

Characters that look like 择

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 修xiūto decorate; to embellish; to repair
• 张zhāngto open up; to spread; sheet of paper
• 恨hènto hate; to regret
• 侮wǔto insult; to ridicule; to disgrace
• 绎yìcontinuous; to interpret; to unravel
• 拂fúto flick; to brush off; (of a breeze) to brush lightly over

Sounds the same

Read zé, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 则(literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then…
• 责duty; responsibility; to reproach
• 泽pool; pond; (of metals etc) luster
• 咋(literary) to bite; to gnaw
• 啧(interj. of admiration or of disgust); to click one's tongue…
• 赜mysterious
• 迮haste; to press
• 笮board under tiles on roof; narrow
• 崱lofty
• 帻turban; head-covering
• 矠(old) spear
• 箦reed mat