焚琴煮鹤
fén​qín​zhǔ​hè

to destroy beautiful things

  • created reference approved 焚琴煮鹤/焚琴煮鶴 → 煮鹤焚琴/煮鶴焚琴 (variant) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    焚琴煮鹤 / 焚琴煮鶴 fén​qín​zhǔ​hè

    煮鹤焚琴 / 煮鶴焚琴 zhǔ​hè​fén​qín

    variant

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 焚琴煮鹤/焚琴煮鶴 · fén​qín​zhǔ​hè · to destroy beautiful things — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    焚琴煮鹤 / 焚琴煮鶴

    fén​qín​zhǔ​hè

    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"

    焚 (literal) → 焚 · fén · to burn 琴 (literal) → 琴 · qín · guqin 煮 (literal) → 煮 · zhǔ · to boil 鹤 (literal) → 鹤/鶴 · hè · crane

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense