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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 九鼎

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
九鼎 jiǔ dǐng - the Nine Tripod Cauldrons, symbol of state power, dating back to the Xia Dynasty

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
- - - 50,152 53,709

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
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 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