tài

excessive

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

太 sound component

  Sound component

tài

  

very

Definitions

 

tài

excessive; scour, wash out; to discard; to eliminate

Most common words with 汰
Freq.
Word
Meaning

淘汰

to wash out

淘汰赛

a knockout competition

优胜劣汰

survival of the fittest (idiom)

to discard

劣汰

elimination of the weakest

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lˤa[t]-s

dajH

dài

wave


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.3843% of movies

1338th most common character in movies

2969th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6C70


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