优胜劣汰 — Chinese idiom
优胜劣汰
yōu shèng liè tài
Traditional: 優勝劣汰
Meaning
- survival of the fittest
Character by character
- 优yōusuperior; elegant
- 胜shèngvictory; to excel, to truimph
- 劣lièlow-quality, inferior, bad
- 汰tàito eliminate, to scour, to wash out; excessive
Idioms sharing a character
- 优游自得 yōu yóu zì dé
- 品学兼优 pǐn xué jiān yōu
- 养尊处优 yǎng zūn chǔ yōu
- 不分胜负 bù fēn shèng fù
- 不胜其苦 bù shèng qí kǔ
- 不可胜言 bù kě shèng yán
- 人定胜天 rén dìng shèng tiān
- 以少胜多 yǐ shǎo shèng duō
- 以弱胜强 yǐ ruò shèng qiáng
- 力不胜任 lì bù shèng rèn
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