淘 — kanji meaning “select”
淘
select
- Meanings
- select
- On'yomi
- トウ (tou)
- Kun'yomi
- よな.げる
- Strokes
- 11
- Newspaper frequency
- #2410 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 85
- Chinese reading
- táo — Chinese character page
Words with 淘
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 淘汰 | とうた touta | weeding out; elimination (e.g. of unneeded employees); culling |
| 自然淘汰 | しぜんとうた shizentouta | natural selection |
| 人為淘汰 | じんいとうた jin'itouta | artificial selection |
| 人員淘汰 | じんいんとうた jin'intouta | personnel reduction |
| 雌雄淘汰 | しゆうとうた shiyuutouta | sexual selection |
| 整理淘汰 | せいりとうた seiritouta | reorganizing an industry or enterprise and weeding out redundant workers; readjustment and retrenchment |
| 血縁淘汰 | けつえんとうた ketsuentouta | kin selection |
| 社会淘汰 | しゃかいとうた shakaitouta | social selection |
| 性淘汰 | せいとうた seitouta | sexual selection |
| 淘汰作用 | とうたさよう toutasayou | sifting out; weeding out; selection |
| 淘げる | よなげる yonageru | to separate and discard; to sieve and sort; to wash out (impurities, etc.) |
| 淘宝網 | タオバオワン taobaowan | Taobao (Chinese online shopping platform) |
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