鼎铛玉石
Traditional form:
鼎鐺玉石
Pinyin (reading):
dǐngchēngyùshí
Definitions:
- 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
Characters:
- 鼎 - large, three-legged bronze cauldron
- 铛 - frying pan; warming vessel
- 玉 - jade, gem, precious stone
- 石 - stone, rock, mineral
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