lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes; fig. to waste valuable resources; to destroy wantonly beautiful things
trad. 焚琴煮鶴
Also written 焚琴煮鶴【fén qín zhǔ hè】
Characters in this word
4焚
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to burn
- Pinyin
- fén
- Strokes
- 12
琴
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guqin 古琴[gu3 qin2] (a type of zither), musical instrument in general
- Pinyin
- qín
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 8845 of 2500
煮
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variant of 煮[zhu3]
- Pinyin
- zhǔ
- Traditional
- 煑
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 2929 of 2500
鹤
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crane
- Pinyin
- hè
- Traditional
- 鶴
- Strokes
- 15
- Frequency
- 22753 of 2500