去芜存菁

qù wú cún jīng

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Definitions

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

Child Words of 去芜存菁

去
qù

to go

存
cún

to exist

菁
jīng

leek flower

芜
wú

overgrown with weeds