Character: 選
Modern (Beijing) reading: xuǎn
Preclassic Old Chinese: sonʔ
Classic Old Chinese: swán
Western Han Chinese: swán
Eastern Han Chinese: sjwán
Early Postclassic Chinese: sjwén
Middle Postclassic Chinese: sjwén
Late Postclassic Chinese: sjwén
Middle Chinese: sjwén
English meaning : to choose, select
Russian meaning[s]: 1) выбирать, избирать; выборы; избрание; 2) отбирать, подбирать; селекция; компилировать; сборник, антология; 3) мгновение, миг; 4) робкий, трусливый; [xuàn] аттестовать чиновника; аттестация; [huán] кольцо, вм. 鍰
Comments: Also read *sonʔ-s, MC sjwèn (FQ 息絹) id. During Early Zhou the character was mostly used for *sōnʔ (*sōrʔ ?), MC swấn, Mand. suàn 'to count' - which later started to be written as 算 q.v. In Han time the character was also used for *srōt, MC ṣwạt, Mand. shuā 'a small measure of weight'. ? Cf. Tib. gson 'hear, perceive'.
Radical: 162
Four-angle index: 6621
Karlgren code: 0433 f
Vietnamese reading: tuyê`n
Shijing occurrences: 26.3_
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