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鼎
Mandarin · pinyin dǐng
Meanings
- ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs
- pot (dialect)
- to enter upon a period of (classical)
- Kangxi radical 206
- one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes
Characters in this entry
- 鼎
- dǐng · large, three-legged bronze caldron; Kangxi radical 206; hexagram ䷱
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Mandarin tones
3 · ding3
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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 10 senses · 1 Cantonese reading
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
ding2
Cantonese word readings for 鼎. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- ding (ancient large, three-legged bronze cauldron for cooking or sacrificial rituals)
- (figurative) throne; monarchy
- (figurative, historical) important figures in the government
- (figurative) big; great
- (figurative) tripartite balance of forces
- (historical) ancient instrument of torture
- (literary) just (at this time); meanwhile
- (Min) wok
- 50th hexagram of the I Ching
- a surname
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