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There are 13 total results for your 淘汰 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

淘汰

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táo tài
    tao2 tai4
t`ao t`ai
    tao tai
 touta / tota
    とうた
to wash out; (fig.) to cull; to weed out; to eliminate; to die out; to phase out
(noun, transitive verb) (1) weeding out; elimination (e.g. of unneeded employees); culling; selection; (noun, transitive verb) (2) {biol} (See 自然淘汰) selection
The fourth of the five periods of Buddha's teaching, according to Tiantai, i.e. the sweeping away of false ideas, produced by appearance, with the doctrine of the void, or the reality behind the seeming.

淘汰賽


淘汰赛

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táo tài sài
    tao2 tai4 sai4
t`ao t`ai sai
    tao tai sai
a knockout competition

性淘汰

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 seitouta / setota
    せいとうた
sexual selection

淘汰作用

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 toutasayou / totasayo
    とうたさよう
sifting out; weeding out; selection; sorting

人員淘汰

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 jinintouta / jinintota
    じんいんとうた
personnel reduction

人為淘汰

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 jinitouta / jinitota
    じんいとうた
(yoji) {biol} artificial selection

整理淘汰

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 seiritouta / seritota
    せいりとうた
(noun/participle) reorganizing an industry or enterprise and weeding out redundant workers; readjustment and retrenchment

末位淘汰

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mò wèi táo tài
    mo4 wei4 tao2 tai4
mo wei t`ao t`ai
    mo wei tao tai
sacking the worst-performing employee; elimination of the worst-performing contestant

社会淘汰

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 shakaitouta / shakaitota
    しゃかいとうた
(See 社会ダーウィニズム) social selection

自然淘汰

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 shizentouta / shizentota
    しぜんとうた
(noun/participle) (yoji) natural selection

融通淘汰

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róng tōng táo tài
    rong2 tong1 tao2 tai4
jung t`ung t`ao t`ai
    jung tung tao tai
 yūtsū tōtai
transparency and cleansing

血縁淘汰

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 ketsuentouta / ketsuentota
    けつえんとうた
kin selection

雌雄淘汰

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 shiyuutouta / shiyutota
    しゆうとうた
(rare) (See 性淘汰) sexual selection

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 13 results for "淘汰" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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