鼎
dǐng HSK7

cooking pot

鼎 dǐng
cauldron
an ancient Chinese cooking vessel, typically round with three legs and two handles or rectangular with four legs, used for cooking or holding food; often made of bronze or clay
political power
(bound form) a symbol of imperial authority or state power, derived from the legendary nine cauldrons cast by Yu the Great
great
(literary) great; large; very important
tripartite
(bound form) consisting of three parts; three-sided, referring to the three legs of a cauldron
pot
(dialect) a cooking pot; a pan
at its peak
(literary) during; in the midst of, often used in the context of being at the height or prime of something
hexagram 50
the 50th hexagram of the 易经 yì​jīng, representing the cauldron
surname
a Chinese surname
radical
the 206th Kangxi radical
high official
(literary) high official; chancellor; minister
execution tool
an ancient execution device used to boil criminals alive

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,356th most common 23.3 per million
Movie subtitles
2,976th most common 3.61 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.04 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
10.8 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+9F0E

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)