去蕪存菁

Chinese

		to go; to leave; to remove	overgrown with weeds	exist; deposit; store exist; deposit; store; keep; survive	flower of leek
trad. (去蕪存菁)		去	蕪	存	菁
simp. (去芜存菁)		去	芜	存	菁
Literally: “to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qùwúcúnjīng

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩˋ ㄨˊ ㄘㄨㄣˊ ㄐㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): heoi³ mou⁴ cyun⁴ zing¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qùwúcúnjīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩˋ ㄨˊ ㄘㄨㄣˊ ㄐㄧㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyùwúcúnjing
    • Wade–Giles: chʻü⁴-wu²-tsʻun²-ching¹
    • Yale: chyù-wú-tswún-jīng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiuhwutswenjing
    • Palladius: цюйуцуньцзин (cjujucunʹczin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy⁵¹ u³⁵ t͡sʰu̯ən³⁵ t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: heoi³ mou⁴ cyun⁴ zing¹
    • Yale: heui mòuh chyùhn jīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hoey³ mou⁴ tsyn⁴ dzing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hêu³ mou⁴ qun⁴ jing¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɵy̯³³ mou̯²¹ t͡sʰyːn²¹ t͡sɪŋ⁵⁵/

Idiom

去蕪存菁

1. to separate the wheat from the chaff