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What 擢 means

to pull out; to select; to promote

Pictophonetic: semantic 扌 (hand), phonetic 隹

Made of 扌 + 翟

Words with 擢

• 拔擢bá zhuóselect the best people for promotion
• 擢升zhuó shēngto promote (sb); to upgrade; to ascend
• 擢第zhuó dìto pass the civil service examination (in imperial China)
• 擢发难数zhuó fà nán shǔlit. as difficult to count as hair pulled from sb's head (idiom); fig. innumerable (crimes)

Characters that sound like 擢

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