擢 — Chinese character
擢
zhuó
to pull up, to raise; to select
- Pinyin
- zhuó
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 17
- Components
- 扌 翟
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 隹
- Japanese
- 擢 as a kanji
Common words with 擢
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拔擢 | bá zhuó | to select for promotion; to elevate to a higher position |
| 擢升 | zhuó shēng | to promote (sb); to upgrade |
| 擢第 | zhuó dì | to pass the civil service examination (in imperial China) |
| 擢发难数 (擢髮難數) | zhuó fà nán shǔ | lit. as difficult to count as hair pulled from sb's head (idiom); fig. innumerable (crimes) |
擢 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 4
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.