qù wú cún jīng

Traditional: 去蕪存菁

去芜存菁 (qù wú cún jīng) is a Chinese word meaning “lit. to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers; to separate the wheat from the chaff (idiom)”.

Meanings

  1. 1lit. to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers
  2. 2to separate the wheat from the chaff (idiom)

Characters in 去芜存菁

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