鼎

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Radical 206 鼎

鼎 (Kangxi radical 206, 鼎+0, 13 strokes in traditional Chinese and Japanese, 12 strokes in mainland China, cangjie input 月山女一中 (BUVML), four-corner 2222₁, composition ⿶𤕰目)

1. Kangxi radical #206, ⿍.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/鼎
• 𠘋, 𫣨, 濎, 檙, 𤐣, 𬒤, 鐤, 𠟭, 𩕢, 薡, 𠬔, 𩆆, 䨶, 𠕪, 𧈂
• 則, 貞, via development into radical 貝

• There is regional variation in the stroke order of the character:
  • In mainland China, Japan and Hong Kong, the sixth stroke is 豎折折.
  • In Taiwan, the sixth stroke is 豎折 and the seventh stroke is 豎.
  • In Japan and Hong Kong, the twelfth stroke is 橫 and the thirteenth stroke is 豎.
  • In mainland China, the twelfth stroke is 橫折, corresponding to the thirteenth stroke in Taiwan.

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1525, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48315
• Dae Jaweon: page 2060, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4740, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9F0E

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 鼎 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• tiáⁿ (Southern Min)

Historical forms of the character 鼎
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) - a tripod, i.e., an ancient bronze vessel with three legs used for cooking or performing ritual sacrifices. Sometimes, it was carved with characters. Also phonetically (and perhaps semantically) borrowed to indicate "to divine" (then written as 鼑 > 貞). See also the original version of 具 and 則.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(m/ʔ)-di(k/ŋ) (“pot; cauldron”) (STEDT).

鼎

1. ding (ancient large, three-legged bronze cauldron for cooking or sacrificial rituals)
2. (figurative) throne; monarchy
3. (figurative, historical) important figures in the government
4. (figurative) big; great
5. (figurative) tripartite balance of forces
6. (historical) ancient instrument of torture
7. (literary) just (at this time); meanwhile
8. (Min) wok

   鼎邊糊／鼎边糊 [Eastern Min]  ―  diāng-biĕng-gù / [Bàng-uâ-cê / IPA]  ―  a kind of rice cake popular in Fuzhou area

9. 50th hexagram of the I Ching
10. a surname

• “Entry #10387”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. three-legged kettle
2. trio, triad

• Go-on: ちょう (chō)^{←ちやう (tyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: てい (tei)^{←てい (tei, historical)}
• Kun: かなえ (kanae, 鼎)^{←かなへ (kanafe, 鼎, historical)}
• Nanori: かなえ (kanae)、かね (kane)

Originally a compound of 金 (kana, “metal”) +‎ 瓮 (he, “a pot or pan for holding food or beverages”).^[1][2]

• 釜 (less common)

• (Tokyo) かなえ (Heiban – )^[3]
• IPA^(key):

鼎(かなえ) • (kanae) ^{←かなへ (kanafe)?}

1. a three-legged kettle, a tripod kettle, used for cooking and later for ceremonial purposes in ancient China, and often made of bronze
2. a symbol of a king or other high authority

• 鼎(かなえ)の軽重(けいじゅう)を問(と)う (kanae no keijū o tō): "to ask about the weight of a kettle" ⇒ to question a person's ability
• 鼎(かなえ)の沸(わ)くが如(ごと)し (kanae no waku ga gotoshi): "just like a boiling kettle" ⇒ a metaphor for a noisy busy situation
• 鼎(かなえ)の中(なか)の一切(ひとき)れの肉(にく) (kanae no naka no hitokire no niku): "single slice of meat in the kettle" ⇒ to get a read on the whole from a small sample
• 鼎(かなえ)を扛(あ)ぐ (kanae o agu): "to lift a kettle" ⇒ to be physically strong
• 鼎(かなえ)を定(さだ)む (kanae o sadamu): "to settle the kettle" ⇒ to control the imperial capital, to ascend the throne

From Middle Chinese 鼎 (MC tengX). Compare modern Mandarin 鼎 (dǐng).

• (Tokyo) てー (Atamadaka – )^[2]
• IPA^(key):

鼎(てい) • (tei) 

1. a three-legged kettle, a tripod kettle, used for cooking and later for ceremonial purposes in ancient China, and often made of bronze
2. one of the I Ching hexagrams

• 鐘鼎文(しょうていぶん) (shōteibun)

鼎 • (jeong) (hangeul 정, revised jeong, McCune–Reischauer chŏng, Yale ceng)

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鼎: Hán Nôm readings: đỉnh, đảnh, đửng, đững, đựng

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