去芜存菁

Traditional form:

去蕪存菁

Pinyin (reading):

qùwúcúnjīng

Definitions:

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

Characters:

• 去 - to go away, to leave, to depart
• 芜 - weeds; overgrowth
• 存 - to exist; to survive, to maintain; to keep, to store; to deposit
• 菁 - turnip; a flower of the leek family

Traditional characters:

• 去 - to go away, to leave, to depart
• 蕪 - weeds; overgrowth
• 存 - to exist; to survive, to maintain; to keep, to store; to deposit
• 菁 - turnip; a flower of the leek family