淘 — Chinese character
淘
táo
to dredge, to sieve; to cleanse, to weed out
- Pinyin
- táo
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 氵 匋
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 匋
- Japanese
- 淘 as a kanji
Common words with 淘
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 淘汰 | táo tài | to wash out; (fig.) to cull |
| 淘气 (淘氣) | táo qì | naughty; mischievous |
| 淘金 | táo jīn | to pan for gold; (fig.) to seek quick profits; to cash in (on an opportunity) |
| 淘汰赛 (淘汰賽) | táo tài sài | a knockout competition |
| 海淘 | hǎi táo | online purchase of goods dispatched from overseas |
| 淘金者 | táo jīn zhě | gold panner; prospector for gold |
| 淘米 | táo mǐ | to rinse rice |
| 小淘气 (小淘氣) | xiǎo táo qì | rascal |
| 淘金热 (淘金熱) | táo jīn rè | gold rush |
| 淘洗 | táo xǐ | to wash |
| 末位淘汰 | mò wèi táo tài | sacking the worst-performing employee; elimination of the worst-performing contestant |
| 淘客 | táo kè | talk (loanword); chatline of PRC Internet company Taobao, taokshop.com |
English words written with 淘
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.