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焚琴煮鶴 (焚琴煮鹤)

fén qín zhǔ hè

Definition

  1. (lit.) to burn zithers and cook cranes
  2. (fig.) to waste valuable resources
  3. to destroy wantonly beautiful things

Character Decomposition

焚
=
林
+
火
琴
=
玨
+
今
煮
=
者
+
灬
鶴
=
隺
+
鳥

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