"to sift chaff" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
筛糠 篩糠 shāi kāng to sift chaff / (fig.) to shake all over syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
luō gauze / to collect / to gather / to catch / to sift syn
luó gauze / to collect / to gather / to catch / to sift syn
过筛 過篩 guò shāi to put through a sieve / to sift (flour etc) / to strain (a liquid) / (fig.) to screen / to filter / to select
糟糠 zāo kāng chaff, husks, distillers' dregs etc (food eaten by the poor) / (fig.) rubbish / junk / (abbr. for 糟糠妻[zao1 kang1 qi1]) wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband syn
shāi (bound form) a sieve / to sieve / to sift / to filter / to eliminate through selection / to warm a pot of rice wine (over a fire or in hot water) / to pour (wine or tea) / (dialect) to strike (a gong) syn
谷壳 穀殼 gǔ ké husk (of rice etc) / chaff
sieve / to sift, to strain
shà (dialect) to sift / to sieve syn
秕糠 bǐ kāng chaff / worthless stuff
去芜存菁 去蕪存菁 qù wú cún jīng lit. to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers / to separate the wheat from the chaff (idiom)
谷糠 穀糠 gǔ kāng grain chaff
zhuó chaff / bran
披沙拣金 披沙揀金 pī shā - jiǎn jīn lit. to sort the gold from the sand (idiom) / fig. to separate the wheat from the chaff syn
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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