焚琴煮鹤 (fén qín zhǔ hè) — lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes · Chinese · Nantoka

fén qín zhǔ hè

Traditional: 焚琴煮鶴

焚琴煮鹤 (fén qín zhǔ hè) is a Chinese word meaning “lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes; fig. to waste valuable resources; to destroy wantonly beautiful things”.

Meanings

1lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes
2fig. to waste valuable resources
3to destroy wantonly beautiful things

Characters in 焚琴煮鹤

焚fén · to burn 琴qín · guqin 古琴[gu3 qin2] (a type of zither)煮zhǔ · to cook 鹤hè · crane

Related words

煮to cook 煮variant of 煮[zhu3]钢琴piano 琴guqin 古琴[gu3 qin2] (a type of zither)琴variant of 琴[qin2], guqin or zither 小提琴fiddle 弹琴to play or strum a lute or other stringed instrument 大提琴cello (CL:把[ba3])焚to burn 焚烧to burn 鹤crane 煮饭to cook

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