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淘とう汰た
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する)
1. weeding out; elimination (e.g. of unneeded employees); culling; selection
2. selection (e.g. natural selection)
Alt. forms
淘とう汰た
96%
とうた
3%
Kanji used
淘
eliminate through selection
汰
sieve through
Pitch accent
と
うた
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Conjugations...Used in: 378
Used in vocabulary (9 in total)
natural selection
artificial selection
sifting out; weeding out; selection; sorting
reorganizing an industry or enterprise and weeding out redundant workers; readjustment and retrenchment
sexual selection
personnel reduction
social selection
kin selection
sexual selection