去芜存菁 — Chinese idiom
去芜存菁
qù wú cún jīng
Traditional: 去蕪存菁
Meaning
- lit. to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers
- to separate the wheat from the chaff
Character by character
- 去qùto go away, to leave, to depart
- 芜wúweeds; overgrowth
- 存cúnto exist; to survive, to maintain; to keep, to sto
- 菁jīngturnip; a flower of the leek family
Idioms sharing a character
- 人去楼空 rén qù lóu kōng
- 来去无踪 lái qù wú zōng
- 来踪去迹 lái zōng qù jì
- 来鸿去燕 lái hóng qù yàn
- 来龙去脉 lái lóng qù mài
- 呼来喝去 hū lái hè qù
- 思来想去 sī lái xiǎng qù
- 拂袖而去 fú xiù ér qù
- 推来推去 tuī lái tuī qù
- 有去无回 yǒu qù wú huí
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