选 (xuǎn) is a Chinese word meaning “to choose; to pick; to select”.
Meanings
- 1to choose
- 2to pick
- 3to select
- 4to elect
- Part of speech
- verb
Related words
选择to select; to pick选手athlete竞选to take part in an election别无选择to have no other choice人选choice of person选举to elect挑选to choose候选人candidate选票a vote; ballot选中to select; to choose; to decide on海选(in elections for village committees in the PRC since the 1990s) unrestricted nomination, a type of election where 1. everyone in the community is eligible to nominate somebody 2. voting is done by writing the name of one's nominee on the ballot, and 3. one's nominee can be anyone in the community (Nominees who receive the highest number of votes may be thereby elected or, more often, presented as the candidates in a further round of voting.)选出to pick out