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
trad. 鼎鐺玉石
Also written 鼎鐺玉石【dǐng chēng yù shí】
Characters in this word
4鼎
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ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs, pot (dialect), to enter upon a period of (classical), Kangxi radical 206, one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes
- Pinyin
- dǐng
- Strokes
- 12
铛
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frying pan, griddle
- Pinyin
- chēng
- Traditional
- 鐺
- Strokes
- 11
玉
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jade
- Pinyin
- yù
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 12826 of 2500
石
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surname Shi, abbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1], the capital of Hebei
- Pinyin
- Shí
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 7503 of 2500