選
xuǎn HSK2

choose

选 選 xuǎn
to choose verb
to choose; to pick; to select; to pick out

你必须得从中选一个。

nǐ bì​xū děi cóng zhōng xuǎn yī​ge.

You have to choose one of them.

永远不要选红色。

yǒng​yuǎn bù​yào xuǎn hóng​sè.

Never pick red.

selection noun
(bound form) a person or thing that has been chosen

他甚至不是我的次选。

tā shèn​zhì bù​shì wǒ​de cì xuǎn.

He's not even my second choice.

to elect verb
to elect; to vote for

教宗是如何选出来的？

jiào​zōng shì rú​hé xuǎn chū​lai de?

How Is the Pope Elected?

choice
(bound form) of the best quality; carefully selected
anthology
(bound form) a collection of selected literary works
surname
a Chinese surname
to exile
(literary) to send away; to banish; to exile

Cross-References

Synonym

Frequency
Character
Written text
499th most common 426.3 per million
Movie subtitles
300th most common 542.7 per million appears in 79% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
197.3 per million appears in 39% of films
Written text
183.2 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Simplified
选
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+9078

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