汰 — Chinese character
汰
tài
to eliminate, to scour, to wash out; excessive
- Pinyin
- tài
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 氵 太
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 太
- Japanese
- 汰 as a kanji
Common words with 汰
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 淘汰 | táo tài | to wash out; (fig.) to cull |
| 淘汰赛 (淘汰賽) | táo tài sài | a knockout competition |
| 优胜劣汰 (優勝劣汰) | yōu shèng liè tài | (idiom) survival of the fittest |
| 裁汰 | cái tài | to cut back |
| 埋汰 | mái tai | (dialect) dirty; to mock sb |
| 删汰 (刪汰) | shān tài | (literary) to eliminate; to delete |
| 劣汰 | liè tài | elimination of the weak (cf. 优胜劣汰 (yōu shèng liè tài)) |
| 末位淘汰 | mò wèi táo tài | sacking the worst-performing employee; elimination of the worst-performing contestant |
| 汰旧换新 (汰舊換新) | tài jiù huàn xīn | out with the old and in with the new (idiom) |
| 涤汰 (滌汰) | dí tài | to wash away; to eradicate |
| 甄汰 | zhēn tài | to eliminate by examination |
English words written with 汰
汰 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 1
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