Read Edit View history 去芜存菁 qùwúcúnjīng to separate the wheat from the chaff Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 去芜存菁 去蕪存菁 qùwúcúnjīng 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 Frequency Written text 0.042 per million Cross-References Synonym 排沙简金 páishājiǎnjīn Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
去芜存菁 去蕪存菁 qùwúcúnjīng 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 Frequency Written text 0.042 per million Cross-References Synonym 排沙简金 páishājiǎnjīn Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)