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Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition


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jiǎn
    jian3
chien
 ken
to choose; to pick; to sort out; to pick up
To pick, choose, select.

分揀


分拣

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fēn jiǎn
    fen1 jian3
fen chien
to sort (mail)

挑揀


挑拣

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tiāo jiǎn
    tiao1 jian3
t`iao chien
    tiao chien
to pick and choose; to select

揀師


拣师

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jiǎn shī
    jian3 shi1
chien shih
 kanshi
One chosen to be a teacher, but not yet fit for a full appointment.

揀擇


拣择

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jiǎn zé
    jian3 ze2
chien tse
 kenjaku
(literary) to select; to choose
To choose, select.

揀起


拣起

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jiǎn qǐ
    jian3 qi3
chien ch`i
    chien chi
to pick up

揀選


拣选

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jiǎn xuǎn
    jian3 xuan3
chien hsüan
to select; to sort out

料揀


料拣

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liào jiǎn
    liao4 jian3
liao chien
 ryōken
to discriminate between the incorrect and correct

白揀


白拣

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bái jiǎn
    bai2 jian3
pai chien
a cheap choice; to choose something that costs nothing

翻揀


翻拣

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fān jiǎn
    fan1 jian3
fan chien
to browse and select; to glance through and check

揀信室


拣信室

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jiǎn xìn shì
    jian3 xin4 shi4
chien hsin shih
mail sorting office

唯嫌揀擇


唯嫌拣择

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wéi xián jiǎn zé
    wei2 xian2 jian3 ze2
wei hsien chien tse
 tada kenjaku wo kirau
to avoid picking and choosing

挑三揀四


挑三拣四

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tiāo sān jiǎn sì
    tiao1 san1 jian3 si4
t`iao san chien ssu
    tiao san chien ssu
to be picky; to be choosy

揀佛燒香


拣佛烧香

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jiǎn fó shāo xiāng
    jian3 fo2 shao1 xiang1
chien fo shao hsiang
to choose which Buddha to burn incense to (idiom); fig. to curry favor from the right person

揀飲擇食


拣饮择食

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jiǎn yǐn zé shí
    jian3 yin3 ze2 shi2
chien yin tse shih
to choose one's food carefully; to be picky

暴力分揀


暴力分拣

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bào lì fēn jiǎn
    bao4 li4 fen1 jian3
pao li fen chien
rough handling of parcels during mail sorting

起信論更料揀


起信论更料拣

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qǐ xìn lùn gēng liào jiǎn
    qi3 xin4 lun4 geng1 liao4 jian3
ch`i hsin lun keng liao chien
    chi hsin lun keng liao chien
 Kishinron kyō ryōken
second commentary on the Awakening of Faith

雷公打豆腐,揀軟的欺


雷公打豆腐,拣软的欺

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léi gōng dǎ dòu fu , jiǎn ruǎn de qī
    lei2 gong1 da3 dou4 fu5 , jian3 ruan3 de5 qi1
lei kung ta tou fu , chien juan te ch`i
    lei kung ta tou fu , chien juan te chi
the God of Thunder strikes bean curd, a bully picks the weakest person; to pick on an easy target

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 18 results for "拣" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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