精华 jīnghuá HSK7 essence Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 取其精华 qǔqíjīnghuá extract essence to select or absorb the best and most useful parts of something while discarding the rest取其精华，去其糟粕 qǔqíjīnghuá, qùqízāopò critical assimilation the principle of not accepting foreign ideas uncritically during the process of national modernization