鼎铛玉石
dǐng​chēng​yù​shí

to waste precious things

  • created sense approved 鼎铛玉石/鼎鐺玉石 · dǐng​chēng​yù​shí · to waste precious things — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    鼎铛玉石 / 鼎鐺玉石

    dǐng​chēng​yù​shí

    to waste precious things

    To use a sacred tripod as a cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone; to waste precious materials or cast pearls before swine.

    鼎 (literal) → 鼎 · dǐng · cauldron 铛 (literal) → 铛/鐺 · chēng · griddle 玉 (literal) → 玉 · yù · jade 石 (literal) → 石 · shí · stone

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

    created sense