鼎(dǐng): ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four…
HSK 7-912 strokes
ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four…
Stroke order animation
Character information
- Pinyin
- dǐng
- Meaning
- 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
- Strokes
- 12
- HSK level
- HSK 7-9
- Traditional
- Same
Origin & structure
Where 鼎 comes from and how its parts fit together.
Pictograph
⿶？目A cauldron on its bronze tripod
A drawing of the thing it names.
Made of
Parts are arranged enclosing from below.
How to write 鼎 step by step
12 strokes — each frame adds one stroke, shown in dark ink over the lighter ones.
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Words with 鼎
Common words using 鼎 — tap any character to open its stroke-order page.
dìng定dǐng鼎
lit. to set up the sacred tripods (following Yu the Great); to fix the capi…
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