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焚琴煮鹤

fén qín zhǔ hè

4-character word Traditional 焚琴煮鶴

What 焚琴煮鹤 means

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

The characters in 焚琴煮鹤

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