See How Fast You Can Learn Chinese

Try our interactive spaced repetition demo—study your first words in 60 seconds

Interactive demo Takes 60 seconds No sign-up needed
Try Demo Now

玉石

yù shí

Sign in to save this word to your study lists.

Definitions

  1. 1. jade
  2. 2. jade and stone
  3. 3. (fig.) the good and the bad

Words Containing 玉石

鼎铛玉石
dǐng chēng yù shí

lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material

玉石俱焚
yù shí jù fén

to burn both jade and common stone

Child Words of 玉石

玉
yù

jade

石
shí

rock

石
dàn

dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗[dǒu]; one hundred liters