對牛彈琴 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 对牛弹琴 duìniútánqín ㄉㄨㄟˋ ㄋㄧㄡˊ ㄊㄢˊ ㄑㄧㄣˊ lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom) fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience to cast pearls before swine caviar to the general to preach to deaf ears to talk over sb's head Character by character 對(duì)right 牛(niú)surname Niu 彈(tán)pluck 琴(qín)guqin 古琴 gǔqín A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0