兴利除弊
xīng​lì​chú​bì

to promote the good and remove the bad

  • created sense approved 兴利除弊/興利除弊 · xīng​lì​chú​bì · to promote the good and remove the bad — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    兴利除弊 / 興利除弊

    xīng​lì​chú​bì

    to promote the good and remove the bad

    to promote what is beneficial and eliminate what is harmful; to encourage helpful practices and abolish harmful ones

    兴 (literal) → 兴/興 · xīng · to flourish 利 (literal) → 利 · lì · benefit 除 (literal) → 除 · chú · to remove 弊 (literal) → 弊 · bì · disadvantage

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

    created sense