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淘汰

淘汰

Chinese

 
cleanse; eliminate; to clean out; to wash
to discard; to eliminate; too
simp. and trad.
(淘汰)

Verb

淘汰

  1. to eliminate; to weed out; to knock out
  2. to die out

Derived terms

  • 淘汰賽淘汰赛

Japanese

Kanji in this term
とう
Hyōgaiji

Grade: S
on'yomi

Etymology

wash in sieve + scour

Noun

淘汰 (hiragana とうた, romaji tōta)

  1. selection, culling out, weeding out

Compounds

Verb

淘汰する (transitive, hiragana とうたする, romaji tōta suru)

  1. cull out, weed out

Conjugation

See also

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

淘汰 (dotae) (hangeul 도태)

  1. Hanja form? of 도태, “selection”.