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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 選, the traditional character: 选 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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“你对市长选举怎么看？”“我不知道。”
"What do you think of the election for mayor?" "I don't know."
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不管我们选哪条路，都会有危险。
Whichever way we choose will involve danger.
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人们或可选择何时开始恋爱，但它的终结却不由人。
People can begin to love when they choose, but they have no choice when it comes to ending love.
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从中选一个。
Choose one from among these.
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从这些里选一个。
Choose any one from among these.
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他们决定选他为总统。
They decided to choose him to be president.
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他再次被选为市长。
He was elected mayor again.
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他弟弟是个有名的足球选手。
His brother is a famous soccer player.