淘
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to wash (rice, sand etc in water to remove impurities); to dredge; to scoop out (sediment or waste); (dialect) to hunt for and buy (bargains or second-hand goods); (dialect) naughty; mischievous
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 水 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 淘
- Common rank
- #2,389
- Unicode
- U+6DD8
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 淘 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 meaning “water” + 匋 sound ()
Components 氵 匋
How to remember it
wash in a container · Heisig RSH #2884
水 water + canteen
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 淘
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小淘气 | Rogue, Marvel Comics superhero | |
| 小淘气 | rascal | |
| 淘金者 | gold panner; prospector for gold | |
| 淘金热 | gold rush | |
| 淘宝网 | Taobao Marketplace, a Chinese website for online shopping | |
| 淘金潮 | gold rush | |
| 海淘 | online purchase of goods dispatched from overseas | |
| 淘金 | to pan for gold; (fig.) to seek quick profits; to cash in (on an opportunity) | |
| 淘气 | naughty; mischievous | |
| 淘神 | troublesome; bothersome | |
| 淘河 | pelican | |
| 淘米 | to rinse rice | |
| 淘客 | talk (loanword); chatline of PRC Internet company Taobao, taokshop.com | |
| 淘宝 | Taobao, a Chinese online shopping website (abbr. for 淘寶網|淘宝网[Tao2 bao3 Wang3]) | |
| 淘洗 | to wash | |
| 淘选 | to decant; to strain off | |
| 末位淘汰 | sacking the worst-performing employee; elimination of the worst-performing contestant | |
| 淘析 | to strain; to wash and filter | |
| 淘汰赛 | a knockout competition | |
| 淘汰 | to wash out; (fig.) to cull; to weed out; to eliminate; to die out; to phase out |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 匋 — compare how they read.