"To pick" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 选择 | xuǎn zé | to select / to pick / choice / option / alternative |   |
| 摘 |  zhāi | 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 | |
| 拣 | jiǎn | to choose / to pick / to sort out / to pick up | |
| 掐 | qiā | to pick (flowers) / to pinch / to nip / to pinch off / to clutch / (slang) to fight | |
| 摘下 | zhāi xià | 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) | |
| 单挑 | dān tiāo | to pick / to choose / to fight a duel | |
| 采摘 | cǎi zhāi | to pluck / to pick | |
| 相中 | xiāng zhòng | to find to one's taste / to pick (after looking at) / Taiwan pr. [xiang4 zhong4] | |
| 遴选 | lín xuǎn | to pick / to choose / to select | |
| 甄选 | zhēn xuǎn | to select / to pick | |
| 撷取 | xié qǔ | to pick / to select / to take / to capture (data) / to acquire / to pick up (a signal) | |
| 选 | xuǎn | to choose / to pick / to select / to elect | |
| 挑 | tiāo | to carry on a shoulder pole / to choose / to pick / to nitpick | |
| 拔 | bá | to pull up / to pull out / to draw out by suction / to select / to pick / to stand out (above level) / to surpass / to seize | |
| 剔 | tī | to scrape the meat from bones / to pick (teeth etc) / to weed out | |
| 抠 | kōu | 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) | |
| 挦 | xián | to pull out (esp. hair or feathers) / to pick / to pluck / fig. to extract (lines from a text) | |
| 单挑 | dān tiǎo | to pick / to choose / to fight a duel / Taiwan pr. [dan1 tiao1] | |
