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# - 鼎 鼎 [ding3] /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/

# + 鼎 鼎 [ding3] /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/tripod/

# = 問鼎 问鼎 [wen4 ding3] /lit. to inquire of the tripods (idiom); fig. to plan to seize power of the whole country/grand ambitions to win/

# = 鼎立 鼎立 [ding3 li4] /lit. to stand like the three legs of a tripod/tripartite confrontation or balance of forces/

# = 一言九鼎 一言九鼎 [yi1 yan2 jiu3 ding3] /one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight/

# = 定鼎 定鼎 [ding4 ding3] /lit. to set up the sacred tripods (following Yu the Great)/to fix the capital/to found a dynasty/used in advertising/

# = 鼎足 鼎足 [ding3 zu2] /lit. the three legs of a tripod/fig. three competing rivals/

# = 問鼎中原 问鼎中原 [wen4 ding3 zhong1 yuan2] /lit. to inquire of the tripods (idiom); fig. to plan to seize power of the whole country/grand ambitions to win/

# = 問鼎輕重 问鼎轻重 [wen4 ding3 qing1 zhong4] /lit. to inquire whether the tripods are light or heavy (idiom); a laughable attempt to seize power/

# = 鼎鐺玉石 鼎铛玉石 [ding3 cheng1 yu4 shi2] /lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material/casting pearls before swine/

# = 染指於鼎 染指于鼎 [ran3 zhi3 yu2 ding3] /lit. dip one's finger in the tripod (idiom); fig. to get one's finger in the pie/to get a share of the action/