noun #40,928

Meanings

  1. 1 dregs; residue (left after extracting something useful)

Examples

Wǒmen yīng qǔ qí jīnghuá, qù qí zāopò.
We should absorb the essence and discard the dross.
Dòupò shì zhà yóu hòu shèngxià de zhāzǐ.
Soybean meal is the residue left after pressing out the oil.

Tips

usage
Originally the dregs left from making liquor. The key compound is 糟粕 (worthless dross), often in 取其精华,去其糟粕 (keep the best, throw out the rubbish). 豆粕 (soybean meal) is the modern industrial sense.

Components

radical
rice; grain
The rice radical, the meaning carrier. The original dregs were the spent grain left after brewing rice or grain liquor.
phonetic
bái
white
Provides the sound, read on its own and shifted to pò here. It serves only as the phonetic cue.

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