去芜存菁
qù​wú​cún​jīng

to separate the wheat from the chaff

  • created sense approved 去芜存菁/去蕪存菁 · qù​wú​cún​jīng · to separate the wheat from the chaff — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    去芜存菁 / 去蕪存菁

    qù​wú​cún​jīng

    to separate the wheat from the chaff

    (idiom) to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers; to discard the rough or messy parts while keeping the essence

    去 (literal) → 去 · qù · to remove 芜 (literal) → 芜/蕪 · wú · overgrown with weeds 存 (literal) → 存 · cún · to reserve 菁 (literal) → 菁 · jīng · essence

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

    created sense