去芜存菁 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 去蕪存菁 qùwúcúnjīng ㄑㄩˋ ㄨˊ ㄘㄨㄣˊ ㄐㄧㄥ 男 女 lit. to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers to separate the wheat from the chaff (idiom) Character by character 去(qù)remove 芜(wú)overgrown with weeds 存(cún)keep 菁(jīng)leek flower Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0