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HSK
to select; to pick / choice; option; alternative
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *选* | 选* | *选
to choose / to pick / to select / to elect
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *精* | 精* | *精
essence / extract / vitality / energy / semen / sperm / mythical goblin spirit / highly perfected / elite / the pick of sth / proficient (refined ability) / extremely (fine) / selected rice (archaic)
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拔* | 拔* | *拔
to pull up / to pull out / to draw out by suction / to select / to pick / to stand out (above level) / to surpass / to seize
HSK 5
preferably / one would prefer to...(or not to...) / would rather / (would) be better to / (to pick) the lesser of two evils
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *摘* | 摘* | *摘
to take; to pick (flowers, fruit etc); to pluck; to remove; to take off (glasses, hat etc) / to select; to pick out / to borrow money at a time of urgent need
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *捡* | 捡* | *捡
to pick up; to collect; to gather
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *叉* | 叉* | *叉
fork / pitchfork / prong / pick / cross / intersect / "X"
HSK 5
to pick up and drop off; to ferry back and forth
HSK 7-9
to pick up (a skill) in a very short time; to take to sth like a duck to water
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拾* | 拾* | *拾
to pick up / to collate or arrange / ten (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *采* | 采* | *采
to pick / to pluck / to collect / to select / to choose / to gather
HSK 7-9
to pay the bill; to pick up the tab
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挑* | 挑* | *挑
to carry on a shoulder pole / to choose / to pick / to nitpick
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *泡* | 泡* | *泡
bubble; foam / blister / to soak; to steep; to infuse / to dawdle; to loiter / to pick up (a girl) / to get off with (a sexual partner) / classifier for occurrences of an action / classifier for number of infusions
HSK 6
to forage / to gather for eating / to pick and eat
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *剔* | 剔* | *剔
to scrape the meat from bones / to pick (teeth etc) / to weed out
to pick up
to increase the specified cruising speed / to pick up speed / to speed up
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *抠* | 抠* | *抠
to dig; to pick; to scratch (with a finger or sth pointed) / to carve; to cut / to study meticulously / stingy; miserly / to lift up (esp. the hem of a robe)
HSK 7-9
to rise again after a fall / to pick up / rally (stock market etc)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *盛* | 盛* | *盛
to hold / to contain / to ladle / to pick up with a utensil
HSK 7-9
(coll.) nothing to pick on; really good / (coll.) nothing to discuss; settled matter; no problem
HSK 7-9
to pick a quarrel / to start a fight
to accept delivery of goods / to pick up goods
to host (a dinner) / to treat / to pick up the check
to find / to pick up / to collect
to pick fault with / to spot the differences / to nitpick / to pick a quarrel / to find complaint with
lit. can pick it up or put it down (idiom) / fig. to take what comes / to meet gains or losses with equanimity
to pick up a pre-arranged item (e.g. package, document, ticket, reserved book) from a delivery point or collection location
water pick / oral irrigator
to point out / to indicate / to give directions / to show how (to do sth) / to censure / to pick at
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拣* | 拣* | *拣
to choose / to pick / to sort out / to pick up
HSK 7-9
to pick pockets
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *择* | 择* | *择
to select / to choose / to pick over / to pick out / to differentiate / to eliminate / also pr. [zhai2]
cheesy pick-up lines
to steal / to pick pockets / to frisk
to clear up the mess / to pick up the pieces
(loanword) pick; plectrum
to pick / to choose / to select
to evoke / to induce / to call to mind / to pick up with a hook
lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom) / fig. honesty prevails throughout society
to pick / to choose / to fight a duel / Taiwan pr. [dan1 tiao1]
to look for employment / to pick a quarrel
lit. to pick the flowers and trample the grass (idiom) / fig. to womanize / to frequent brothels / to sow one's wild oats
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *掐* | 掐* | *掐
to pick (flowers) / to pinch / to nip / to pinch off / to clutch / (slang) to fight
HSK 7-9
to meet (or pick up) sb arriving by plane / (of airport staff) to deal with the arrival of a plane
(of a courier) to pick up; to collect (parcels or goods for shipping)
ear pick
bad habit (e.g. nose-picking) / petty maneuver / dirty trick / gamesmanship
to find / to pick up / to obtain
to pick up money and not hide it (idiom); to return property to its owner
to pick out / to select / to elect
to pick up; to gather
to pick up a car (newly purchased car from a dealership, repaired vehicle from a repair shop, rental car at the airport etc)
a turn for the better / to pick up / to improve
to pick up
to choose freely; to pick whichever one fancies
(idiom) to cherry-pick; to pick the best parts for oneself; to be choosy
pick and roll (basketball) / screen and roll
to pick up / to collect
to pluck / to pick
to pluck a pearl from the black dragon (idiom, from Zhuangzi); fig. to pick out the salient points (from a tangled situation) / to see through to the nub
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *镊* | 镊* | *镊
(bound form) tweezers / to use tweezers (to grasp, pick up, or pull out etc, depending on whether the following resultative verb is or or etc)
to pick up girls / to play around with girls / to chase after girls
to pick up a girl; to get a girl
pick; plectrum
to remove earwax with an ear pick
to take off; to remove (one's hat, a door from its hinges etc) / to pick (a piece of fruit from a tree etc) / (sports) to pick off (a rebound etc)
to pick on sth incessantly (idiom) / to criticize right and left
to request a song to be played / to pick a karaoke song
ice pick
when hungry, you can't pick what you eat (idiom); beggars can't be choosers / When matters are urgent, don't spend time choosing alternatives.
to pick and choose / to select
to become tainted with the smell of sth else / to pick up an odor
Kong Rong giving up pears, classic moral story about Kong Rong 孔融 picking up smaller pears while leaving the bigger ones to his older brothers, still used nowadays to educate the young on courtesy and modesty
to pick one's nose
to pick flowers / to enter houses at night in order to rape women
to pick out / to select and recruit / to pluck / to pull
to pick the edible part of vegetables
to pick one's teeth
ear pick
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *抉* | 抉* | *抉
to pick out / to single out
to pick a lock / to force a lock
the God of Thunder strikes bean curd, a bully picks the weakest person / to pick on an easy target
hammer pick
to pick up (from the ground with one's hands)
to pick up cress / fig. sth easy to do / a piece of cake
to pick up (a theme etc) / to regain (confidence) / to revive (a custom, friendship etc)
(northern dialect) to pick up a fare (as a taxi driver) / to pick up a piece of work (as a courier)
to take on a piece of work / to pick up some freelance work / (of a taxi driver) to pick up a fare
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挦* | 挦* | *挦
to pull out (esp. hair or feathers) / to pick / to pluck / fig. to extract (lines from a text)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *镐* | 镐* | *镐
a pick
lit. so numerous that one could just bend down and pick them up (idiom) / fig. extremely common; easily available
to pick up a girl / to get a girl
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *敧* | 敧* | *敧
to pick up thing with chopsticks or pincers.
a changeover of personnel / a new shift / (lit.) replacement for soldier on leave for the melon-picking season
lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom) / fig. honesty prevails throughout society
lit. it's the soft persimmons that people choose to squeeze (idiom) / fig. it's the weak (i.e. 軟柿子|软柿子) who get picked on / bullies pick soft targets
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *搛* | 搛* | *搛
to pick up with chopsticks

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