dǐng

cooking pot

Pictograph of an ancient cooking pot with two handles and three or four legs.

Evolution

鼎 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
鼎 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
鼎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鼎 Clerical script Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
鼎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

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)

大名鼎鼎

grand reputation

问鼎

to aspire to the throne

鼎盛

flourishing

一言九鼎

one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

Iconic component in 4 characters (4 verified)

Remnant component in 4 characters (4 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tˤeŋʔ

tengX

dǐng

cauldron


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.6659% of movies

2976th most common character in movies

2356th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+9F0E

Shuowen

“鼎,三足兩耳,和五味之寶器也。昔禹收九牧之金,鑄鼎荊山之下。入山林川澤,螭魅蝄蜽,莫能逢之,以協承天休。《易》卦,巽木於(火)下者為鼎,象析木以炊也。籀文以鼎為貞字。”


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