Ideographic: To pick 扌 a fruit off a branch 啇Radical:

meaning for zhāi:

  • - to take
  • - to borrow
  • - to pick (flowers, fruit etc)
  • - to pluck
  • - to select
  • - to remove
  • - to take off (glasses, hat etc)summary
  • - abstractto pluck
  • - to pickto pluck
  • - to takedigest (of literature)
  • - to make a digest (of data)
  • - summaryto extract
  • - to excerpt
  • - an excerpt

zhè
zhǐ
hóuzi猴子
huì
zhāi
táozi桃子
zhēn
cōngming聪明

This monkey can pick peaches. It's so smart!


zhāi
le
yīzhīhuā一枝花
sònggěi送给

I picked a flower for you.


xiǎng
zhāi
jǐge几个
chéngzi橙子
nǐhéwǒ你和我
yīqǐqù一起去
ma

I want to pick some oranges. Would you like to come with me?