淘汰 táotài▶ menghilangkan

Stroke order

淘汰 is written in 18 strokes across 2 characters.

• 淘 — 11 strokes
• 汰 — 7 strokes

Senses

1. to wash out
2. (fig.) to cull
3. to weed out
4. to eliminate
5. to die out
6. to phase out

Related words

• 优胜劣汰Seleksi alam, bertahan hidup yang terkuat
• 淘气nakal

淘汰 is pronounced táotài and means “menghilangkan”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 淘汰 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.