dǐng chēng yù shí

Traditional: 鼎鐺玉石

鼎铛玉石 (dǐng chēng yù shí) is a Chinese word meaning “lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material; casting pearls before swine”.

Meanings

  1. 1lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material
  2. 2casting pearls before swine

Characters in 鼎铛玉石

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