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Words with 撰

Kanji 撰, meaning compiling, appears in 26 Japanese vocabulary entries.

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択ぶ

えらぶ

to choose

杜撰

ずさん

using unreliable sources (in a piece of writing)

特撰

とくせん

special prize

撰集

せんしゅう

selection (e.g. of poems, texts)

自撰

じせん

voting for oneself

百撰

ひゃくせん

top hundred

官撰

かんせん

government compilation

私撰

しせん

personal selection (esp. of a defense lawyer)

修撰

しゅうせん

editing

新撰

しんせん

newly compiled

新撰姓氏録

しんせんしょうじろく

Shinsen Shouji Roku (Newly Compiled Record of Clan Names; 815 CE)

新撰組

しんせんぐみ

Shinsengumi

せん

anthology (of poetry, etc.)

撰する

せんする

to compile (an anthology)

撰歌

せんか

selection of poems

撰者

せんじゃ

author

撰修

せんしゅう

writing (a book)

撰述

せんじゅつ

writing (a book)

撰進

せんしん

compiling and presenting poems, texts, etc. to the emperor

撰文

せんぶん

writing (an epitaph, foreword, etc.)

撰録

せんろく

compiling

択ばれし者

えらばれしもの

the chosen one

勅撰

ちょくせん

compilation for the emperor

勅撰集

ちょくせんしゅう

imperially-commissioned poetry anthology

勅撰和歌集

ちょくせんわかしゅう

poems collected at the behest of the Emperor (from 905 to 1439)

杜撰脱漏

ずさんだつろう

careless (slipshod) and with many omissions