Special Choice, Special Prize
Noun, する verb, and の adjective
とくせん
親分の絵が、コンクールで特選に入賞したぞ!
The picture of our boss won the special prize at the contest!
こちらが、特選されたコスプレイヤーの方々です。
Here are the specially selected cosplayers.
コウイチは、毎晩寝る前に特選の極上黒大蒜を食べるそうだ。
I heard that Koichi eats the best, specially selected black garlic before going to bed every night.
If something is special you choose it. That makes it a special selection of yours and it gets a special prize that only you could give!
This is a jukugo word, which usually means on'yomi readings from the kanji. If you know the readings of your kanji you'll know how to read this as well.