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鼎

dǐng

Meanings

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dǐng
  1. 1.ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs
  2. 2.pot (dialect)
  3. 3.to enter upon a period of (classical)
  4. 4.Kangxi radical 206
  5. 5.one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.ding (ancient large, three-legged bronze cauldron for cooking or sacrificial rituals)
  2. 2.throne; monarchy
  3. 3.important figures in the government
  4. 4.big; great
  5. 5.tripartite balance of forces
  6. 6.ancient instrument of torture
  7. 7.just (at this time); meanwhile
  8. 8.wok
  9. 9.50th hexagram of the I Ching
  10. 10.a surname

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Etymology

Pictogram (象形) - a tripod, i.e., an ancient bronze vessel with three legs used for cooking or performing ritual sacrifices. Sometimes, it was carved with characters. Also phonetically (and perhaps semantically) borrowed to indicate "to divine" (then written as 鼑 > 貞). See also the original version of 具 and 則. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(m/ʔ)-di(k/ŋ) (“pot; cauldron”) (STEDT).

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Components

鼎𤕰目

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Synonyms

釜鍋鍋子飯鍋䀇子煲鑊罉鑊仔鼎罐鑊頭煲仔烳鑼炒鑊鑊俅鑊仔蒂銚兒鍋仔鍋鍋鼎仔木磬生鍋鐺鑊子鑊則鍋則鉛鍋兒鍋兒爐倉

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Derived terms

一代鼎臣一言九鼎三分鼎立三分鼎足三牲五鼎三足鼎立三鼎甲丹鼎九鼎九鼎大呂九鼎大吕人聲鼎沸人声鼎沸刀鋸鼎鑊刀锯鼎镬列鼎刑鼎列鼎而食列鼎重裀功銘鼎彝問鼎问鼎嘗鼎一臠尝鼎一脔四海鼎沸夏鼎大名鼎鼎大烹五鼎天下鼎沸定鼎

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Related words

鼎鼎 great鼎足 lit. the three legs of a tripod鼎力 (honorific) your kind efforts九鼎 the Nine Tripod Cauldrons, symbol of state power, dating back to the Xia Dynasty鼎新 to innovate鼎峙 (literary) to form a tripartite confrontation定鼎 lit. to set up the sacred tripods (following Yu the Great)鼎城 see 鼎城区[Dǐng chéng Qū]问鼎 to aspire to the throne鼎立 lit. to stand like the three legs of a tripod鼎助 (honorific) your inestimable assistance鼎革 change of dynasties