Entry
取qǔ其qí精jīng华huá，,去qù其qí糟zāo粕pò

  1. take the cream, discard the dross (political and educational slogan); keep what is good, discard the rest; You need to be selective when studying.; In modernizing the country, don't accept uncritically all foreign ideas.

    trad. 取其精華，去其糟粕

Also written 取其精華，去其糟粕【qǔ qí jīng huá , qù qí zāo pò】

Characters in this word

7
精
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

essence, extract, vitality, energy, semen, sperm, mythical goblin spirit, highly perfected, elite, the pick of sth, proficient (refined ability), extremely (fine), selected rice (archaic)

Pinyin
jīng
Strokes
14
Frequency
9150 of 2500
Words starting with 精Words ending in 精Anywhere in a word
去
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to go, to go to (a place), (of a time etc) last, just passed, to send, to remove, to get rid of, to reduce, to be apart from in space or time, to die (euphemism), to play (a part), (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth, (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker), (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)

Pinyin
qù
Strokes
5
Frequency
21 of 2500
Words starting with 去Words ending in 去Anywhere in a word