to select / to choose / to pick over / to pick out / to differentiate / to eliminate / also pr. [zhai2]

= + + + : Zorro (z) has to select (择) his new weapon between two terrible choices (择) in the elevator's kitchen (e2): there is either a boxing glove (又) or a dinosaur bone (丨). He has to select one using a toy claw (扌), but he has to choose wisely: one of the items is hooked to a charged capacitor (二) which will shock Zorro should he take the wrong choice (择).

择 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Gitta Giraffe (gu-) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the encampment's living room ((e)n3).
vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and is cracking it open to eat its bone marrow.
two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid

= : Mnemonic symbol: a capacitor, because the two strokes remind me of the symbol in electrical drawings. Albert Einstein (Ø) is experimenting with a capacitor (二) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). He finds that it's uncomfortable to discharge a capacitor using two flutes (一).
(once) again / also / both... and... / and yet / (used for emphasis) anyway

= + : And once again (又), Maud Younger (y) is preparing for battle. She's donning her boxing glove in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4), puts on a beak (㇇) and plans go give her opponent the finger (㇏).
"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a toy claw.

Characters with 择 as component

sheath around joints of bamboo
fallen leaves and bark

Words with 择

to choose (literary)
by fair means or foul / by hook or by crook / unscrupulously
discard eligible (Frame Relay) / DE
natural selection
Zhang Zeduan (1085-1145), Song dynasty painter
to choose and use / to adopt (a decision)
(literary) to select / to choose
to choose one's food carefully / to be picky
impossible to separate / impossible to disentangle / cannot take time out
to pick out the bones in a fish
to choose what is good and hold fast to it (idiom)
to choose the right course and follow it (idiom)
to fix a date (for an event) / to select an auspicious date
lit. carefully setting an auspicious date does not beat seizing an opportunity (idiom) / fig. seize the occasion
to pick an auspicious day
to speak incoherently / to ramble / to talk irresponsibly
to say not a word that is not appropriate (idiom) / wrongly used for 口不擇言|口不择言[kou3 bu4 ze2 yan2]

Sentences with 择

择 currently does not appear in any sentence.