| 粕 | |||
| lees, dregs, sediments left after distilling liquor | |||
| Radical | 米 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 5 | Total Strokes | 11 |
| Mandarin reading | pò | Cantonese reading | pok3 |
| Japanese on reading | haku | Japanese kun reading | kasu |
| Korean reading | pak | Vietnamese reading | |
| 粕 | |||
| lees, dregs, sediments left after distilling liquor | |||
| Radical | 米 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 5 | Total Strokes | 11 |
| Mandarin reading | pò | Cantonese reading | pok3 |
| Japanese on reading | haku | Japanese kun reading | kasu |
| Korean reading | pak | Vietnamese reading | |
| 粕 | [ pò ] grains in distilled liquor |
| ⇒ 去其糟粕 | [ qù qí zaō pò ] to remove the dross, to discard the dregs |
| ⇒ 取其精華，去其糟粕 | [ qǔ qí jīng huá qù qí zaō pò ] 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. |
| ⇒ 糟粕 | [ zaō pò ] dross, dregs, rubbish, fig. useless residue |