Read Edit View history 焚琴煮鹤 fénqínzhǔhè to destroy beautiful things Origin Definitions Defs 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)