Taivo A Taiwan Mandarin dictionary

焚琴煮鶴

fénqínzhǔhè

ㄈㄣˊ ㄑㄧㄣˊ ㄓㄨˇ ㄏㄜˋ

Simplified 焚琴煮鹤

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

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