择 zé to select
怎么记住“择”: 扌 hand + 𠬤 watch over = to select. With one hand on the cart, the mother has to watch over three kids at the market while she tries to select the ripest melon.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
择 = 扌 hand + 𠬤 watch over
- 扌 hand meaning
- 𠬤 watch over sound
With one hand on the cart, the mother has to watch over three kids at the market while she tries to select the ripest melon.
How it came to be
The hand gives the meaning and the right part gives the sound.
用法
- To choose: bookish, almost never used alone in speech; lives in compounds 选择 (xuǎnzé) and 抉择 (juézé, a hard choice).
- 抉择 is weightier and more formal than 选择: 人生的抉择 (rénshēng de juézé) a crucial life decision.
- Note the alternate reading zhái in colloquial 择菜 (zhái cài) to sort/trim vegetables.
- Where you'd casually 'pick,' Chinese uses 选; save 择 for set phrases like 择日 (zérì) to pick an auspicious day.
含“择”的词语
例句
- 他选择了否定的答案。 Tā xuǎnzéle fǒudìng de dá'àn.He's chosen the negative response.