择 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

zé HSK4

select

择 (擇) zé

select verb: to choose or select from among various options; 公司将对申请者择优录取。

gōngsī jiāng duì shēnqǐng zhě zé yōu lùqǔ.

The company will recruit the best applicants among the candidates.

pick over verb: to pick out, eliminate, or differentiate items by sorting, often used in a colloquial context or for physical objects; 把菜里的黄叶子择出来。

bǎ cài lǐ de huáng yèzi zé chulai.

Pick out the yellow leaves from the vegetables.

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

Definitions: CC-CEDICT
Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)