dǐng
cooking pot
Pictograph of an ancient cooking pot with two handles and three or four legs.
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
Moderndǐng
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
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
pot (dialect) | ||
grand reputation | ||
to aspire to the throne | ||
flourishing | ||
one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight |
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tˤeŋʔ | tengX | dǐng | cauldron |
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.6659% of movies
2976th most common character in movies
2356th most common character in books
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。” |
