汰 (tài): to discard, to eliminate
汰 (tài) is a Chinese character meaning “to discard.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 氵 (semantic) and 太 (phonetic). It ranks #2729 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 汰 water. Its radical form 氵 (water) appears in many related characters such as 水 (shuǐ, water), 汉 (hàn, Han ethnic group), 汽 (qì, steam).
Definitions
- to discard
- to eliminate
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 汰
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 淘汰赛noun | táo tài sài | a knockout competition |
| 优胜劣汰phrase | yōu shèng liè tài | (idiom) survival of the fittest |
| 汰旧换新phrase | 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 |
| 裁汰verb | cái tài | to cut back |
| 埋汰adjective | mái tai | (dialect) dirty |
| 劣汰 | liè tài | elimination of the weak (cf. 優勝劣汰|优胜劣汰) |
| 删汰 | shān tài | (literary) to eliminate |
| 甄汰 | zhēn tài | to eliminate by examination |
| 涤汰 | dí tài | to wash away |
汰 appears in 11 compound words: 9 as the first character, 82 as the last, and 9 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 汰 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
暴雨过后，汰水上涨，淹没了低洼的街道。
bào yǔ guò hòu , tài shuǐ shǎng zhǎng , yān méi le dī 洼 de jiē dào .
After the downpour, floodwaters rose, submerging the low-lying streets.
最高50万元别错过!商业服务业节能设备汰换补助申请4月10日截止
zuì gāo 5 0 wàn yuán bié cuò guò ! shāng yè fú wù yè jié néng shè bèi tài huàn bǔ zhù shēn qǐng 4 yuè 1 0 rì jié zhǐ
Don’t miss out on up to 500,000 yuan! The application deadline for the energy-saving equipment replacement subsidy for the commercial and service sectors is April 10.
...机器看donk赛事狂砍1.61rt却被淘汰!而ZywOo拿下1.62rt且残局1v...
. . . jī qì kàn d o n k sài shì kuáng kǎn 1 . 6 1 r t què bèi táo tài ! ér Z y w O o ná xià 1 . 6 2 r t qiě cán jú 1 v . . .
...The bot dominated the Donk tournament with a 1.61 RT but was eliminated! Meanwhile, ZywOo posted a 1.62 RT and went 1v1 in the late game...
桃园巨蛋整修遭控砍树 市府秀报告:汰换不良树种防窜根危害
táo yuán jù dàn zhěng xiū zāo kòng kǎn shù shì fǔ xiù bào gào : tài huàn bù liáng shù zhǒng fáng cuàn gēn wēi hài
Taoyuan Dome Renovation Faces Criticism Over Tree Cutting; City Government Releases Report: Replacing Problematic Tree Species to Prevent Root Damage
...16强|阿仙奴胜利华古逊跻身八强 皇马淘汰曼城
. . . 1 6 qiáng ā xiān nú shèng lì huá gǔ xùn 跻 shēn bā qiáng huáng mǎ táo tài 曼 chéng
...Round of 16 | Arsenal defeats Varguson to advance to the quarterfinals; Real Madrid eliminates Manchester City
经典赛》8强无缘登板只能看着日本队遭淘汰!守护神大势:这样不行...
jīng diǎn sài 8 qiáng wú yuán dēng bǎn zhī néng kàn zhe rì běn duì zāo táo tài ! shǒu hù shén dà shì : zhè yàng bù háng . . .
World Baseball Classic: Left Out of the Quarterfinals, Forced to Watch Japan Get Eliminated! Closer Daishi: "This Won't Do..."
德国被韩国淘汰。
Déguó bèi Hánguó táotài.
Germany was eliminated by South Korea.
在上一届世界杯上，新西兰在比赛中被墨西哥淘汰。
Zài shàng yī jiè Shìjièbēi shàng, Xīnxīlán zài bǐsài zhōng bèi Mòxīgē táotài.
In the last World Cup, New Zealand was knocked out of the competition by Mexico.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 氵 (water) component
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