tài
excessive
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 太 represents the sound.
Definitions
Most common words with 汰
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to wash out | ||
a knockout competition | ||
survival of the fittest (idiom) | ||
to discard | ||
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 |
Sources
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