liè​tài

elimination of the inferior

  • created sense approved 劣汰 · liè​tài · elimination of the inferior — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    劣汰

    liè​tài

    elimination of the inferior

    elimination of the weakest; the weeding out of the poor-performing or low-quality

    劣 (literal) → 劣 · liè · inferior 汰 (literal) → 汰 · tài · to eliminate

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense