CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

取舍

qǔshě

to select; to make one's choice; to decide what to accept and what to reject

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

to select; to make one's choice; to decide what to accept and what to reject

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 取舍 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 取舍 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

梦想和现实有时真的很难取舍。mèng xiǎng hé xiàn shí yǒu shí zhēn de hěn nán qǔ shě。

It is sometimes hard to choose between dreams and reality.

她在找工作和读大学之间无法取舍。tā zài zhǎo gōng zuò hé dú dà xué zhī jiān wú fǎ qǔ shě。

She can't make up her mind whether to get a job or to go on to college.

我喜欢郁金香和猫，可是郁金香对猫咪有毒，我该如何取舍呢？wǒ xǐ huān yù jīn xiāng hé māo， kě shì yù jīn xiāng duì māo mī yǒu dú， wǒ gāi rú hé qǔ shě ne？

I like tulips and cats, but tulips are poisonous to cats. How should I choose?

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 取舍.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 取舍.

Directly before

无法取舍1
很难取舍1
如何取舍1

Directly after

取舍呢1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 取舍

What does 取舍 mean in Chinese?

取舍 (qǔshě) means to select; to make one's choice; to decide what to accept and what to reject.

How do you pronounce 取舍?

取舍 is pronounced qǔshě.

Is 取舍 an HSK word?

取舍 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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