明珠暗投 Save Sign in to save words míngzhūàntóu ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄓㄨ ㄢˋ ㄊㄡˊ to cast pearls before swine (idiom) not to get proper recognition for one's talents Character by character 明(míng)Ming Dynasty 珠(zhū)bead 暗(àn)dark 投(tóu)throw A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0