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黄钟毁弃瓦釜雷鸣

huáng zhōng huǐ qì wǎ fǔ léi míng

8-character word Traditional 黃鐘譭棄瓦釜雷鳴

What 黄钟毁弃瓦釜雷鸣 means

1. lit. earthern pots make more noise than classical bells
2. good men are discarded in favor of bombastic ones (idiom)

The characters in 黄钟毁弃瓦釜雷鸣

• 黄huángyellow; pornographic; to fall through
• 钟zhōnghandleless cup; goblet; (bound form) to concentrate (one's affection etc); variant of 钟
• 毁huǐto destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander
• 弃qìto abandon; to relinquish; to discard
• 瓦wǎroof tile; abbr. for 瓦特
• 釜fǔkettle; cauldron
• 雷léithunder; (bound form; military) mine, as in 地雷; (colloquial) to shock; to stun; to astound
• 鸣míngto cry (of birds, animals and insects); to make a sound…