Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- tài
English
- excessive
- to discard
- scour, wash out
- to eliminate
- to discard something less valued
粵語
- 去除冇咁有價值嘅事物
As a component in
Words containing 汰
- 淘汰tou4 taai3
to wash out
- 淘汰賽tou4 taai3 coi3
a knockout competition
- 埋汰maai4 taai3
(dialect) dirty
- 裁汰coi4 taai3
to cut back
- 劣汰lyut3 taai3
elimination of the weak (cf. 優勝劣汰|优胜劣汰[you1 sheng4 lie4 tai4])
- 甄汰jan1 taai3
to eliminate by examination
- 車汰ce1 taai1
- 淘汰論tou4 taai3 leon6
- 刪汰saan1 taai3
(literary) to eliminate; to delete
- 滌汰dik6 taai3
to wash away
- 天然淘汰tin1 jin4 tou4 taai3
- 優勝劣汰jau1 sing3 lyut3 taai3
(idiom) survival of the fittest
- 汰舊換新taai3 gau6 wun6 san1
out with the old and in with the new (idiom)
- 末位淘汰mut6 wai6 tou4 taai3
sacking the worst-performing employee
- 汰弱留強taai3 joek6 lau4 koeng4
a way of eliminating weaker people or things and retaining the stronger ones; similar to "survival of the fittest"