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鼎铛玉石

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4-character word Traditional 鼎鐺玉石

What 鼎铛玉石 means

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

The characters in 鼎铛玉石

• 鼎dǐngancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs; pot (dialect)…
• 铛chēngfrying pan; griddle
• 玉yùjade
• 石shírock; stone; stone inscription