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		Trad	Simp	Mandarin	Definition	Days old	Ver
		鼎鐺玉石	鼎铛玉石	[ding3 cheng1 yu4 shi2]	/lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material/casting pearls before swine/	6332	1
		玉石俱焚	玉石俱焚	[yu4 shi2 ju4 fen2]	/to burn both jade and common stone/to destroy indiscriminately (idiom)/	6190	1
		玉石	玉石	[[yu4shi2]]	/jade/jade and stone/(fig.) the good and the bad/	818	2

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