焚琴煮鹤 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 焚琴煮鶴 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 鹤(hè)crane A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0