選 — elect, select, choose

えらぶ選 elect

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 15 strokes

U+9078 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #57 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1944 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

elect
select
choose
prefer

word

えら era Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

選(えら) ぶ erabu to choose 選(えら) び erabi selection 選(えら) べる eraberu to be able to choose 選(えら) び方(かた) erabikata way of choosing

せん sen On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

選(せん) 手(しゅ) senshu athlete 選(せん) 挙(きょ) senkyo election 選(せん) sen selection 当(とう) 選(せん) tousen election 予(よ) 選(せん) yosen preliminary 選(せん) 定(てい) sentei selection 選(せん) 出(しゅつ) senshutsu election 選(せん) 考(こう) senkou selection

Appears in idioms

取捨選択四字熟語

take, discard, elect, choose

選ぶところがない慣用句

no place from which to choose exists

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

巽 southeast

辶 road

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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