Choose in Chinese
to choose · HSK 3
选
你选哪个颜色？ Which color do you choose?
Other ways to say choose
How do you say choose in Chinese?
Choose in Chinese is 选 (xuǎn). You can also say 选择 (xuǎn zé), 挑 (tiāo), 挑选 (tiāo xuǎn), 选拔 (xuǎn bá).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.