锒铛 (鋃鐺)
láng dāng
Pinyin
Definition
锒铛 (鋃鐺)
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- iron chains
- shackles
- (onom.) clank
Character Decomposition
Idioms (2)
锒铛入狱
- 1 lit. to get shackled and thrown in jail (idiom)
- 2 fig. to be put behind bars
- 3 to get jailed
鼎铛玉石
- 1 lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material
- 2 casting pearls before swine