to pull out / to select / to promote

擢 character breakdown

"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a toy claw.
surname Di / variant of 狄[Di2], generic name for northern ethnic minorities during the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 BC-220 AD)
surname Zhai

= + : In the airplane's kitchen (ai2) James II of England (zh) gives a present to Herbert Allen Giles (翟) for his contributions to the Wade-Giles system, a long-tail pheasant. As Herbert receives the bird he finds that it is just a sparrow (隹) with long feathers (羽) attached.
long-tail pheasant

= + : Dorothy Gale (di) helps the sparrow (隹) to put on a costume in the space station's entrance (Ø2). She attaches very long feathers (羽) to the sparrows tail so that he looks like a long-tail pheasant (翟).

Characters with 擢 as component

擢 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 擢

select the best people for promotion
to promote (sb) / to upgrade / to ascend
to pass the civil service examination (in imperial China)
lit. as difficult to count as hair pulled from sb's head (idiom) / fig. innumerable (crimes)

Sentences with 擢

擢 currently does not appear in any sentence.