粵

去heoi3蕪mou4存cyun4菁cing1

simp去芜存菁
heoi3 mou4 cyun4 cing1qù wú cún jīng

English

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

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 去除雜亂嘅部份，保留精粹

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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