汰
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to discard; to eliminate
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How 汰 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 (semantic, “water”) + 太 (phonetic, tài)
How to remember it
get rid of · Heisig RSH #1535
水 water + 太 overly
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 太
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 太 (tài) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 太 sound component | tài | very, too much; big; extreme |
| 态 | tài | manner, bearing, attitude |
| 肽 | tài | peptide |
| 钛 | tài | titanium |
| 呔 | dāi | tire; neck-tie |
| 酞 | tài | phthalein |
Words containing 汰
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 汰旧换新 | tài jiù huàn xīn | out with the old and in with the new (idiom) |
| 末位淘汰 | mò wèi táo tài | sacking the worst-performing employee; elimination of the worst-performing contestant |
| 优胜劣汰 | yōu shèng liè tài | (idiom) survival of the fittest |
| 淘汰赛 | táo tài sài | a knockout competition |
| 裁汰 | cái tài | to cut back |
| 埋汰 | mái tai | (dialect) dirty; to mock sb |
| 涤汰 | dí tài | to wash away; to eradicate |
| 劣汰 | liè tài | elimination of the weak (cf. 優勝劣汰|优胜劣汰[you1 sheng4 lie4 tai4]) |
| 淘汰 | táo tài | to wash out; (fig.) to cull; to weed out; to eliminate; to die out; to phase out |
| 甄汰 | zhēn tài | to eliminate by examination |
| 删汰 | shān tài | (literary) to eliminate; to delete |