择
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。

gōng​sī jiāng duì shēn​qǐng zhě zé yōu lù​qǔ.

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 yè​zi zé chu​lai.

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 computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)