鼎铛玉石

dǐng chēng yù shí

정의

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

鼎铛玉石의 구성 단어

• 玉 yù: jade
• 玉石 yù shí: jade
• 石 dàn: dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗[dǒu]; one hundred liters
• 石 shí: rock
• 铛 chēng: frying pan
• 铛 dāng: clank
• 鼎 dǐng: ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs