鼎鐺玉石

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 and words in 鼎鐺玉石

dǐng = di + (e)ng3
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
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frying pan / griddle
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dāng = d + ang1
clank / clang / sound of metal
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= yu + Ø4
jade
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jade / jade and stone / (fig.) the good and the bad
shí = sh + Ø2
surname Shi / abbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1]
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dàn = d + an4
dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗 / ten pecks / one hundred liters
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shí = sh + Ø2
rock / stone / stone inscription / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
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dàn = d + an4
dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗[dou3]; one hundred liters / ancient pr. [shi2]
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Words with 鼎鐺玉石

鼎鐺玉石 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 鼎鐺玉石

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