淘 汰

táotài

“To wash out” in Chinese is 淘汰 (táotài).

Meaning

to wash out
(fig.) to cull
to weed out

Show 3 more meanings

to eliminate
to die out
to phase out

Example

德国被韩国淘汰。

Germany was eliminated by South Korea.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

táoHSK 7-911 strokesto wash (rice, sand etc in water to remove impurities)tàiHSK 7-97 strokesto discard

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