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
择 = 扌 hand + 𠬤 watch over
- 扌 hand
- 𠬤 watch over
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.
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.