Memory phrase for the character: 拣

拣

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to choose, to pick up, to sort out

jiǎn

Left: hand 扌, right: variant from the east 东/東 (The sun 日 rises behind a tree 木 in the east.)

(First come = free choice) The hand that comes first in the morning (=the sun still behind the trees) can choose.

扌	hand	Simplification of this hand 手
東	east	In this radical, the sun rises 日 behind a tree 木 in the east. The radical has been simplified to 东. In some characters, such as 拣, there is an additional short horizontal line. For reasons of simplicity, this is nevertheless also understood as "east".

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雷公打豆腐，拣软的欺	Léi Gōng dǎ dòu fu , jiǎn ruǎn de qī	the God of Thunder strikes bean curd, a bully picks the weakest person; to pick on an easy target
翻拣	fān jiǎn	to browse and select; to glance through and check
白拣	bái jiǎn	a cheap choice; to choose sth that costs nothing
白拣	bái jiǎn

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