择
zézhái HSK4

select

择 擇 zé frequency
to choose verbnoun
(bound form) to select; to choose; to pick out; used primarily in formal compound words like 选择 xuǎn​zé
to differentiate
(literary) to distinguish; to differentiate
surname
a Chinese surname
择 擇 zhái
to pick over
to select or pick over, usually used as a standalone verb in spoken Chinese for tasks like cleaning vegetables
to extricate
to free oneself from a difficult situation; to untangle something messy like yarn or a complex dispute

Frequency
Character
Written text
961st most common 173.7 per million
Movie subtitles
670th most common 197.8 per million appears in 60% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.38 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
12.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
擇
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+62E9

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)