Chinese symbol for “cull”
淘汰
táo tài
to wash out; (fig.) to cull; to weed out; to eliminate
The closest CC-CEDICT match for cull is 淘汰 (táo tài), defined as: to wash out; (fig.) to cull; to weed out; to eliminate; to die out; to phase out.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “cull”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 淘汰.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “cull”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.