dǐng
鼎 (dǐng) is a Chinese word meaning “ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs; pot (dialect); to enter upon a period of (classical)”.
Meanings
- 1ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs
- 2pot (dialect)
- 3to enter upon a period of (classical)
- 4Kangxi radical 206
- 5one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes
Related words
大名鼎鼎grand reputation鼎盛thriving问鼎to aspire to the throne鼎立lit. to stand like the three legs of a tripod鼎力相助We are most grateful for your valuable assistance.一言九鼎one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight人声鼎沸lit. a boiling cauldron of voices (idiom)三足鼎立(idiom) to form a tripartite balance of power三权鼎立separation of powers刀锯鼎镬knife, saw and cauldron定鼎lit. to set up the sacred tripods (following Yu the Great)春秋鼎盛the prime of one's life