lit. earthern pots make more noise than classical bells; good men are discarded in favor of bombastic ones (idiom)
trad. 黃鐘譭棄瓦釜雷鳴
Also written 黃鐘譭棄瓦釜雷鳴【huáng zhōng huǐ qì wǎ fǔ léi míng】
Characters in this word
8黄
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surname Huang or Hwang
- Pinyin
- Huáng
- Traditional
- 黃
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 4900 of 2500
钟
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surname Zhong
- Pinyin
- Zhōng
- Traditional
- 鍾
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 6196 of 2500
毁
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to destroy; to ruin, to defame; to slander
- Pinyin
- huǐ
- Traditional
- 毀
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 1535 of 2500
弃
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to abandon, to relinquish, to discard, to throw away
- Pinyin
- qì
- Traditional
- 棄
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 17851 of 2500
瓦
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roof tile, abbr. for 瓦特[wa3 te4]
- Pinyin
- wǎ
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 5429 of 2500
釜
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kettle, cauldron
- Pinyin
- fǔ
- Strokes
- 10
雷
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surname Lei
- Pinyin
- Léi
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 1485 of 2500
鸣
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to cry (of birds, animals and insects), to make a sound, to voice (one's gratitude, grievance etc)
- Pinyin
- míng
- Traditional
- 鳴
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 25342 of 2500