"Chaff" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 谷壳 | gǔ ké | husk (of rice etc) / chaff |  |
| 秕糠 | bǐ kāng | chaff / worthless stuff | |
| 䅵 |  zhuó | chaff / bran | |
| 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 |  |
| 筛糠 | shāi kāng | to sift chaff / (fig.) to shake all over | |
| 去芜存菁 | 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 | gǔ kāng | grain chaff | |
| 披沙拣金 | pī shā - jiǎn jīn | lit. to sort the gold from the sand (idiom) / fig. to separate the wheat from the chaff | |
