Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- zhuó
English
- pull up, draw up
- to pull out
- select
- to select
- to promote
- to exert a sudden pulling force; to yank; to tug
- lurching; jiggling
- to shake; to jiggle; to lurch
- to coax a secret out of somebody; to sound out
- to intentionally act with some skill
- to try until one succeeds doing something
粵語
- 突然出力一掹、一拉
- 郁下停下;搖得好勁嘅
- 猛烈咁搖晃
- 引人講一啲秘密消息
- 刻意使出技巧
- 不斷嘗試直到成功為止
As a component in
Words containing 擢
- 擢樣cok3 joeng2
to forcefully put on facial expressions and poses to try and make oneself appear more cool
- 擢升zok6 sing1
to promote (sb)
- 拔擢bat6 zok6
select the best people for promotion
- 擢第zok6 dai6
to pass the civil service examination (in imperial China)
- 擢髮難數zok6 faat3 naan4 sou3
lit. as difficult to count as hair pulled from sb's head (idiom)
- 擢下擢下zok6 haa5 zok6 haa5
- 擢下擢下zok6 haa5 zok6 haa5