dǐng
cooking pot
Pictograph of an ancient cooking pot with two handles and three or four legs.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
dǐng
large, three-legged bronze caldron; 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
Most common words with 鼎
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
pot (dialect) | ||
grand reputation | ||
to aspire to the throne | ||
flourishing | ||
one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
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