焚琴煮鹤 fénqínzhǔhè to destroy beautiful things Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 焚琴煮鹤 焚琴煮鶴 fénqínzhǔhè to destroy beautiful things to waste or destroy beautiful things; to ruin a refined atmosphere or offend against good taste; literally "to burn a zither for firewood and cook a crane for food" Frequency Written text 0.034 per million Cross-References Variant of 煮鹤焚琴 zhǔhèfénqín Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
焚琴煮鹤 焚琴煮鶴 fénqínzhǔhè to destroy beautiful things to waste or destroy beautiful things; to ruin a refined atmosphere or offend against good taste; literally "to burn a zither for firewood and cook a crane for food" Frequency Written text 0.034 per million Cross-References Variant of 煮鹤焚琴 zhǔhèfénqín Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
