鼎铛玉石

Traditional: 鼎鐺玉石

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Dictionary entry

lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material

What does 鼎铛玉石 mean?

鼎铛玉石 (dǐng chēng yù shí) has the following dictionary meaning.

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

2casting pearls before swine

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鼎dǐngancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs · pot (dialect)铛chēngfrying pan · griddle 玉yùjade 石Shísurname Shi · abbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1], the capital of Hebei

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