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煮鶴焚琴
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destroy sth fine or valuable; pay no respect for sth elegant; do sth baffling/embarrassing; spoil the fun [literal] burn down the musical instrument to cook the crane Level: 4 This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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This word has been viewed 1421 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by C Chiu on 27th Oct 2015 01:15 |
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Characters in this word:煮 zyu2 - cook鶴 hok6 - crane 焚 fan4 - burn 琴 kam4 - qin (musical instrument), musical instrument |
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: the Cantonese pronunciation of the word in jyutping.
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: the Mandarin pronunciation of the word in pinyin (only if present).