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Keyword
to eliminate
  • to scour
  • to wash out
  • excessive
Frequency
#2160
Strokes
7
Readings
tài100%
Mnemonic
氵 (water) gives the meaning and 太 the sound.
Stroke order
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Used in vocabulary
淘汰táotài
to wash out; (fig.) to cull; to weed out; to eliminate; to die out; to phase out
淘汰赛táotàisài
a knockout competition
汰tài
to discard; to eliminate
优胜劣汰yōushèngliètài
(idiom) survival of the fittest
裁汰cáitài
to cut back
埋汰máitai
(dialect) dirty; to mock sb