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鼎铛玉石 (鼎鐺玉石)

dǐng chēng yù shí

Definition

  1. (lit.) to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material
  2. casting pearls before swine

Character Decomposition

鼎
=
？
+
目
铛
=
钅
+
当
玉
=
王
+
？
石
=
丆
+
口

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