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択

Select
Stroke count: 7

Readings

On readingタク
Kun readingえら.ぶ

Verbs with «択»

選択する採択する

Meanings

  1. select
  2. chooseRtK
  3. elect
  4. prefer
  1. counter for choices, options, etc.

Popular Usage

選択

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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finger · fingers · shaku-hachi · flag (方) · stick (丨)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1155

Compound words

書物の選択に際して、過去の偉大な作家は最も注意されるべきだ。
In one's reading, great writers of the past must be given the most attention.tatoeba
第二外国語は自由に選択できることになっている。
The second language may be freely chosen.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

一度買い始めてしまったから、買わないという選択肢はなかった。
いちどかいはじめてしまったから、かわないというせんたくしはなかった。Once I'd started buying, not buying was no longer an option.
逆の選択をすればうまくいくかもしれん
ぎゃくのせんたくをすればうまくいくかもしれんIf we make the opposite choice, it might work.
絞りとか照明とかフィルターの選択とか露出の時間とか現像の技術とか、
しぼりとかしょうめいとかふぃるたーのせんたくとかろしゅつのじかんとかげんぞうのぎじゅつとか、Things like aperture, lighting, filter choice, exposure time, developing technique,

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

7 strokes

To select. Hand 扌 + 尺 (measure) — measuring by hand and picking what fits.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 択

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step