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Kanji Detail for 淘 - "wash rice, dredge"
淘
- Meaning
淘 means "wash rice, dredge."
Wash rice - To rinse rice; to sort by washing.
Dredge - To scoop out.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
select
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
wash in a sieve; weed out
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
to wash (rice, sand etc in water to remove impurities); to dredge; to scoop out (sediment or waste); (dialect) to hunt for and buy (bargains or second-hand goods); (dialect) naughty; mischievous
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to dredge, to sieve; to cleanse, to weed out
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To wash rice. Putting rice in a container, adding water, and letting the chaff float up to remove it. The same method is used to extract gold from sand, called 淘澄 or 淘汰. Today, selecting talent and removing the unfit is called 淘汰 (elimination), with the same meaning. | Dredging is called 淘. As in 淘井 (dredging a well).
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