U+9009 "选" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9009 "选" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to choose," "to select," or "to elect," and it is widely used in modern Mandarin as a simplified form of the traditional character 選. It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block, which encodes logographic characters common to these languages. In composition, the character combines the radical 辵 (辶), meaning "to walk" or "movement," with the phonetic component 巽, hinting at its pronunciation (xuǎn in Mandarin). Beyond its literal sense of picking or voting, "选" appears in common compounds such as 选择 (xuǎnzé, "to choose"), 选举 (xuǎnjǔ, "election"), and 选手 (xuǎnshǒu, "contestant" or "player"), making it a practical and frequently encountered character in everyday written communication across East Asia.