Meaning
compiling · composing · editing · selecting
On'yomi
サン · セン
Kun'yomi
えら.ぶ · えら.む · せん.する
Common compounds (6)
- 択ぶ えらぶto choose; to select
- 特撰 とくせんspecial prize; highest honours
- 撰集 せんじゅうselection (e.g. of poems, texts); anthology; selected extracts
- 自撰 じせんvoting for oneself
- 百撰 ひゃくせんtop hundred; hundred best
- 杜撰 ずざんusing unreliable sources (in a piece of writing); piece of writing with unreliable sources or many errors