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- 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
- lit. to stand like the three legs of a tripod
- tripartite confrontation or balance of forces
- the Nine Tripod Cauldrons, symbol of state power, dating back to the Xia Dynasty
- lit. to set up the sacred tripods (following Yu the Great)
- to fix the capital
- to found a dynasty
- used in advertising
- Fuding, a county-level city in Ningde City 寧德市|宁德市[Ning2 de2 Shi4], Fujian
Trad. 鼎城區
- Dingcheng, a district of Changde City 常德市[Chang2 de2 Shi4], Hunan
Trad. 鼎泰豐
- Din Tai Fung, restaurant specializing in dumplings, with stores in many countries
Trad. 鼎湖區
- Dinghu, a district of Zhaoqing City 肇慶市|肇庆市[Zhao4 qing4 Shi4], Guangdong
Trad. 鐘鼎文
- bell-cauldron script
- the 籀文 form of Chinese character used in metal inscriptions
- We are most grateful for your valuable assistance.
Trad. 鼎足之勢
- competition between three rivals
- tripartite confrontation
Trad. 鼎鐺玉石
- 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
- seething discontent (idiom); popular grievances boil over
Trad. 問鼎中原
- to plan to seize power of the whole country (idiom)
Trad. 問鼎輕重
- lit. to inquire whether the tripods are light or heavy (idiom); a laughable attempt to seize power
- one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
Trad. 染指於鼎
- 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
- (idiom) to form a tripartite balance of power
Trad. 刀鋸鼎鑊
- knife, saw and cauldron
- ancient instruments of torture
- fig. torture
Trad. 人聲鼎沸
- lit. a boiling cauldron of voices (idiom)
- hubbub
- brouhaha
- to discard the old and introduce the new (idiom); to innovate