汰

Meaning

汰 centers on separating what is wanted from what is not: washing away impurities, sieving, filtering, or weeding out. The luxury sense is a separate, less common application that likely developed from the idea of selecting only the best.

• 沙汰さた

  affair; state; incident; issue; matter

• ご無沙汰ごぶさた
  N2

  not writing or contacting for a while; neglecting (failing) to write (call, visit, etc.); long silence

• 淘汰とうた

  weeding out; elimination (e.g. of unneeded employees); culling; selection

• 音沙汰おとさた

  news (from someone); word; letter; tidings; contact

• 表沙汰おもてざた

  going public (with a matter); becoming public knowledge

• 手持ち無沙汰てもちぶさた

  having nothing to do; having time on one's hands (and not knowing what to do); being at a loose end; being bored

• 糂汰じんだ

  salted rice-bran paste for pickling

• 自然淘汰しぜんとうた

  natural selection

• 無沙汰ぶさた
  N2

  not writing or contacting for a while; neglecting to write (call, visit, etc.); failing to write (call, visit, etc.); long silence

• 人員淘汰じんいんとうた

  personnel reduction

• 人為淘汰じんいとうた

  artificial selection

• 仏の沙汰も銭ほとけのさたもぜに

  money talks; money is the key that opens all doors; even the Buddha's verdict is (decided by) money

• 内沙汰うちざた

  secret government business

• 刃傷沙汰にんじょうざた

  bloodshed

• 喧嘩沙汰けんかざた

  beginning (developing into) a quarrel (a fight, an altercation)

• 地獄の沙汰も金次第じごくのさたもかねしだい

  money talks; money is the key that opens all doors; money is the best lawyer in hell; even the verdict of hell is determined by money

• 御沙汰ごさた

  (imperial) words

• 性淘汰せいとうた

  sexual selection

• 整理淘汰せいりとうた

  reorganizing an industry or enterprise and weeding out redundant workers; readjustment and retrenchment

• 暴力沙汰ぼうりょくざた

  (committing, resorting to) an act of violence

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