| 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 / casting pearls before swine |
| 鼎 |
dǐng |
ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs / pot (dialect) / to enter upon a period of (classical) / Kangxi radical 206 / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes |
| 铛 |
chēng |
frying pan / griddle |
| 铛 |
dāng |
clank / clang / sound of metal |
| 玉 |
yù |
jade |
| 玉石 |
yù shí |
jade / jade and stone / (fig.) the good and the bad |
| 石 |
Shí |
surname Shi / abbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家庄, the capital of Hebei |
| 石 |
dàn |
dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗; one hundred liters / ancient pr. [shi2] |
| 石 |
shí |
rock / stone / stone inscription / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音 |