取其精华，去其糟粕
qǔ​qí​jīng​huá​qù​qí​zāo​pò

take the essence and discard the dregs

  • created sense approved 取其精华，去其糟粕/取其精華，去其糟粕 · qǔ​qí​jīng​huá​qù​qí​zāo​pò · take the essence and discard the dregs — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    取其精华，去其糟粕 / 取其精華，去其糟粕

    qǔ​qí​jīng​huá​qù​qí​zāo​pò

    take the essence and discard the dregs

    Keep what is best or useful while throwing away what is worthless or harmful; used as a slogan for being selective when adopting foreign ideas or traditional culture.traditional culture.

    取其精华 (literal) → 取其精华/取其精華 · qǔ​qí​jīng​huá · to absorb the essence ， (non_chinese) 去其糟粕 (literal) → 去其糟粕 · qù​qí​zāo​pò · to discard the dregs

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

    created sense