鼎食
dǐng​shí

extravagant food

  • created sense approved 鼎食 · dǐng​shí · extravagant food — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    鼎食

    dǐng​shí

    extravagant food

    The food of nobility or a wealthy family, often implying luxury and high status. Often used in the idiom [[钟鸣鼎食|鐘鳴鼎食|zhong1 ming2 ding3 shi2]] to describe an aristocratic lifestyle.

    鼎 (literal) → 鼎 · dǐng · cauldron 食 (literal) → 食 · shí · food

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense