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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 一言九鼎
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 一言九鼎 | yī yán jiǔ dǐng | - one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight |
List Ranking:
Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.
| HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 50,906 | 33,803 | 14,030 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 一 | yī | - one - single - a (article) - as soon as - entire; whole; all; throughout - "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) - also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit |
| 言 | yán | - words - speech - to say - to talk |
| 九 | jiǔ | - nine - 9 |
| 鼎 | dǐng | - 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 |
Other Words Containing 一言九鼎
Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.
| Word | HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 一言九鼎 | - | - | 50,906 | 33,803 | 14,030 |