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优胜劣汰

yōu shèng liè tài

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 優勝劣汰

优胜劣汰 (yōu shèng liè tài) means "survival of the fittest (idiom)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 优胜劣汰 means

1. idiomsurvival of the fittest

The characters in 优胜劣汰

• 优yōuexcellent; superior
• 胜shèngvictory; success; to beat
• 劣lièinferior
• 汰tàito discard; to eliminate

Where 优胜劣汰 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yíng–yōu (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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