Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- dǐng
English
- large, three-legged bronze caldron
- ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs
- Kangxi radical 206
- pot (dialect)
- hexagram ䷱
- to enter upon a period of (classical)
- Kangxi radical 206
- one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes
- large ancient three-legged bronze vessel which was used for sacrificial or commemorative purposes
粵語
- 中國古代用於祭祀嘅器皿；多數係三隻腳，上半部似一隻好大嘅碗，用嚟製作供奉神明嘅食物；鼎亦都係古代權力嘅象徵
As a component in · 42
Variants
Words containing 鼎
- 鼎盛ding2 sing6
thriving
- 鼎力ding2 lik6
(honorific) your kind efforts
- 問鼎man6 ding2
to aspire to the throne
- 鼎立ding2 laap6
lit. to stand like the three legs of a tripod
- 定鼎ding6 ding2
lit. to set up the sacred tripods (following Yu the Great)
- 鼎食ding2 sik6
extravagant food
- 九鼎gau2 ding2
the Nine Tripod Cauldrons, symbol of state power, dating back to the Xia Dynasty
- 鼎峙ding2 ci5
(literary) to form a tripartite confrontation
- 鼎盛期ding2 sing6 kei4
golden age; heyday; period of peak prosperity
- 鼎新ding2 san1
to innovate
- 鼎城ding2 sing4
see 鼎城區|鼎城区[Ding3 cheng2 Qu1]
- 鼎族ding2 zuk6
rich patriarchal family
- 大名鼎鼎daai6 ming4 ding2 ding2
grand reputation
- 大名鼎鼎daai6 ming4 ding2 ding2
grand reputation
- 鼎鼎大名ding2 ding2 daai6 ming4
famous
- 鼎鼎大名ding2 ding2 daai6 ming4
famous
- 鼎足ding2 zuk1
lit. the three legs of a tripod
- 福鼎fuk1 ding2
see 福鼎市[Fu2 ding3 Shi4]
- 鼎湖ding2 wu4
see 鼎湖區|鼎湖区[Ding3 hu2 Qu1]
- 鼎助ding2 zo6
(honorific) your inestimable assistance
- 鼎革ding2 gaak3
change of dynasties
- 鐘鼎文zung1 ding2 man4
bell-cauldron script
- 鼎鼎ding2 ding2
great
- 鼎鼎ding2 ding2
great