尝鼎一脔 chángdǐngyīluán to judge the whole from a part Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 尝鼎一脔 嘗鼎一臠 chángdǐngyīluán to judge the whole from a part to know the flavor of a whole pot of food by tasting a single piece of meat; metaphorically, to be able to judge the whole by examining a small part or sample 尝鼎一脔 嚐鼎一臠 chángdǐngyīluán judge the whole from a part to taste a single piece of meat from a cauldron and know the flavor of the whole dish; to infer the general situation from a small sample Frequency Written text 0.002 per million Cross-References Synonym 因小见大 yīnxiǎojiàndà Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
尝鼎一脔 嘗鼎一臠 chángdǐngyīluán to judge the whole from a part to know the flavor of a whole pot of food by tasting a single piece of meat; metaphorically, to be able to judge the whole by examining a small part or sample 尝鼎一脔 嚐鼎一臠 chángdǐngyīluán judge the whole from a part to taste a single piece of meat from a cauldron and know the flavor of the whole dish; to infer the general situation from a small sample Frequency Written text 0.002 per million Cross-References Synonym 因小见大 yīnxiǎojiàndà Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
