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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *选* | 选* | *选
to choose / to pick / to select / to elect
HSK 2
to select; to pick / choice; option; alternative
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挑* | 挑* | *挑
to carry on a shoulder pole / to choose / to pick / to nitpick
HSK 4
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *叉* | 叉* | *叉
fork / pitchfork / prong / pick / cross / intersect / "X"
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拾* | 拾* | *拾
to pick up / to collate or arrange / ten (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
HSK 5
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
  *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
  *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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *捡* | 捡* | *捡
to pick up; to collect; to gather
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *采* | 采* | *采
to pick / to pluck / to collect / to select / to choose / to gather
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *盛* | 盛* | *盛
to hold / to contain / to ladle / to pick up with a utensil
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 increase the specified cruising speed / to pick up speed / to speed up
HSK 7-9
to pick up and drop off; to ferry back and forth
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *掐* | 掐* | *掐
to pick (flowers) / to pinch / to nip / to pinch off / to clutch / (slang) to fight
HSK 7-9
to rise again after a fall / to pick up / rally (stock market etc)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拣* | 拣* | *拣
to choose / to pick / to sort out / to pick up
HSK 7-9
to point out / to indicate / to give directions / to show how (to do sth) / to censure / to pick at
HSK 7-9
preferably / one would prefer to...(or not to...) / would rather / (would) be better to / (to pick) the lesser of two evils
HSK 7-9
nothing to pick on; really good / nothing to discuss; settled matter; no problem
HSK 7-9
(of a courier) to pick up; to collect (parcels or goods for shipping)
to pluck / to pick
to pick up; to gather
to pick up / to collect
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *镐* | 镐* | *镐
a pick
(guitar) pick (loanword)
to pick out / to select / to elect
pick and roll (basketball) / screen and roll
to pick flowers / to enter houses at night in order to rape women
to select; to pick
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *摭* | 摭* | *摭
pick up / to select
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *塈* | 塈* | *塈
(literary) to plaster / (literary) to pick up / (literary) to rest
to pick / to choose / to fight a duel / Taiwan pr. [dan1 tiao1]
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *剔* | 剔* | *剔
to scrape the meat from bones / to pick (teeth etc) / to weed out
to pick / to choose / to select
to look for employment / to pick a quarrel
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 find / to pick up / to collect
a turn for the better / to pick up / to improve
to request a song to be played / to pick a karaoke song
to pick fault with / to spot the differences / to nitpick / to pick a quarrel / to find complaint with
to pick up money and not hide it (idiom); to return property to its owner
to find to one's taste / to pick (after looking at) / Taiwan pr. [xiang4 zhong4]
to pick a quarrel / to start a fight
to accept delivery of goods / to pick up goods
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *抉* | 抉* | *抉
to pick out / to single out
to pick and choose / to select
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
  *掇* | 掇* | *掇
to pick up; to collect; to gather up
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 one's teeth
to pick up girls / to play around with girls / to chase after girls
lit. to pick the flowers and trample the grass (idiom) / fig. to womanize / to frequent brothels / to sow one's wild oats
to evoke / to induce / to call to mind / to pick up with a hook
to pick the edible part of vegetables
to steal / to pick pockets / to frisk
lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom) / fig. honesty prevails throughout society
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *搛* | 搛* | *搛
to pick up with chopsticks
lit. so numerous that one could just bend down and pick them up (idiom) / fig. extremely common; easily available
(idiom) to cherry-pick; to pick the best parts for oneself; to be choosy
to pick up bits / to collect scrap material / tidbits / gleanings (used as gossip)
to host (a dinner) / to treat / to pick up the check
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
ice pick
to pick out / to select and recruit / to pluck / to pull
to pick / to select / to take / to capture (data) / to acquire / to pick up (a signal)
to clear up / to tidy up / to pick up / to repair
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *敧* | 敧* | *敧
to pick up thing with chopsticks or pincers.
to pick up what others say (idiom); to pass off other people's opinions as one's own / to parrot
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *撮* | 撮* | *撮
to pick up (a powder etc) with the fingertips / to scoop up / to collect together / to extract / to gather up / classifier: pinch / Taiwan pr. [cuo4]
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *择* | 择* | *择
to select / to choose / to pick over / to pick out / to differentiate / to eliminate / also pr. [zhai2]
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 up (from the ground with one's hands)
to pick up
to meet (or pick up) sb arriving by plane / (of airport staff) to deal with the arrival of a plane
custom of placing a variety of articles (writing brush, abacus etc) before an infant on its first birthday to see which one he or she picks up (The article chosen is supposed to be an indication of the child's inclinations, future career etc.)
to pick a lock / to force a lock
to pick up a car (newly purchased car from a dealership, repaired vehicle from a repair shop, rental car at the airport etc)
to choose freely; to pick whichever one fancies
to pick up a girl; to get a girl
to pick up
to pick pockets
to pick up (a skill) in a very short time; to take to sth like a duck to water
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 cress / fig. sth easy to do / a piece of cake
floss pick
a changeover of personnel / a new shift / (lit.) replacement for soldier on leave for the melon-picking season
to clear up the mess / to pick up the pieces
to become tainted with the smell of sth else / to pick up an odor
to pick up a pre-arranged item (e.g. package, document, ticket, reserved book) from a delivery point or collection location
to remove earwax with an ear pick
to forage / to gather for eating / to pick and eat
to pick out the bones in a fish
hammer pick
fruit picking
to pick a quarrel / to find fault / nitpicking
cheesy pick-up lines
to pick up a girl / to get a girl
(northern dialect) to pick up a fare (as a taxi driver) / to pick up a piece of work (as a courier)

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