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
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thriving / flourishing
grand reputation / renowned / famous
to aspire to the throne / to aim at (the first place etc)
(honorific) your kind efforts / thanks to your help
We are most grateful for your valuable assistance.
(honorific) your inestimable assistance / thanks to your help
to innovate
rich patriarchal family / aristocracy
a confused noise / a racket
flourishing period / golden age
golden age / heyday / period of peak prosperity
lit. to stand like the three legs of a tripod / tripartite confrontation or balance of forces
lit. the three legs of a tripod / fig. three competing rivals
competition between three rivals / tripartite confrontation
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
change of dynasties / clear out the old, bring in the new
extravagant food
great / very important
famous / celebrated
one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom) / words of enormous weight
separation of powers
(idiom) to form a tripartite balance of power
lit. a boiling cauldron of voices (idiom) / hubbub / brouhaha
knife, saw and cauldron / ancient instruments of torture / fig. torture
to plan to seize power of the whole country (idiom)
lit. to inquire whether the tripods are light or heavy (idiom) / a laughable attempt to seize power
lit. to set up the sacred tripods (following Yu the Great) / to fix the capital / to found a dynasty / used in advertising
the prime of one's life
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
seething discontent (idiom) / popular grievances boil over
extravagant lifestyle
bell-cauldron script / the 籀文 form of Chinese character used in metal inscriptions
to discard the old and introduce the new (idiom) / to innovate
(of a temple) teeming with worshippers
see 鼎城區|鼎城区[]
Dingcheng, a district of Changde City 常德市[], Hunan
(literary) to form a tripartite confrontation
Din Tai Fung, restaurant specializing in dumplings, with stores in many countries
see 鼎湖區|鼎湖区[]
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27