Kanji1 / 15
選 kanji
elect, select, choose, prefer
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
セン
Kun readings
えらぶえるよる
Words with 選
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —選曲selection of music; song selection
- —選集selection (e.g. of poems, texts); anthology; selected extracts
- —勅選imperial nomination
- —普選universal suffrage
- —民選popular election
- —選民the chosen people
- —野選fielder's choice
- —新選newly compiled; newly edited; newly elected; newly returned
- —官選government-appointed
- —百選top hundred; hundred best
- —文選type-picking; anthology; selection of literary works
- —私選personal selection (esp. of a defense lawyer); private selection (e.g. of poetry)
- —婦選women's suffrage
- —謹選carefully selected
- —詩選selected poems
- —選外unselected
- —選良member of parliament; the elite
- —選局tuning in (to a TV channel or radio station); channel selection
- —選果sorting fruit
- —選炭coal dressing; concentration of coal