焚琴煮鶴 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 焚琴煮鹤 fénqínzhǔhè ㄈㄣˊ ㄑㄧㄣˊ ㄓㄨˇ ㄏㄜˋ lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes fig. to waste valuable resources to destroy wantonly beautiful things Character by character 焚(fén)burn 琴(qín)guqin 古琴 gǔqín 煮(zhǔ)cook 鶴(hè)crane A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0