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Kanji Detail for 汰 - "washing, sieving, filtering, weeding out, luxury"

汰

  • Meaning

    汰 means "washing, sieving, filtering, weeding out, luxury."

    1. Excessive - Too much; beyond measure.

    2. Turbid - Murky; not clear.

    3. To wash and sort - To rinse and separate good from bad.

  • Words using 汰

    • ご無沙汰 ごぶさた Listen not writing or contacting for a while; neglecting (failing) to write (call, visit, etc.); long silence

  • Four-character idioms with 汰

    • 自然淘汰 しぜんとうた Listen natural selection
    • 人為淘汰 じんいとうた Listen artificial selection

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    • Verified meaning: washing, sieving, filtering, weeding out, luxury
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    washing; sieving; filtering; weeding out; luxury

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    excessive; scour, wash out

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to discard; to eliminate

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to eliminate, to scour, to wash out; excessive

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Excessive. As in extravagant (奢汰), wasteful (汰侈). | Removing the useless is called 汰. As in sifting (沙汰), eliminating (淘汰).

  • Onyomi

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    ta(タ) タ

    tai(タイ) タイ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    nigo.ru(にご-る) にご-る

    ogo.ru(おご-る) おご-る

    yona.geru(よな-げる) よな-げる

  • Strokes

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    7 strokes

  • Radical

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    水 氵 氺 (mizu・sanzui・shitamizu)

  • Related Keywords

    excessive turbid to sort wash cull select weed out eliminate filter murky purify refine sift separate screen choose

Sentences including 汰

  • Two years have passed since i last met you.

  • When he was young , he was the talk of town.

  • Money is everything.

  • I haven't seen you for ages.

  • It has been a long time since i wrote you last.

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