大名鼎鼎
dà míng dǐng dǐng
Pinyin

Definition

大名鼎鼎
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dà míng dǐng dǐng
  1. grand reputation
  2. renowned
  3. famous

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

名
míng
  1. 1 name
  2. 2 noun (part of speech)
  3. 3 place (e.g. among winners)
  4. 4 famous
  5. 5 classifier for people
名字
míng zi
  1. 1 name (of a person or thing)
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
大
dà
  1. 1 big
  2. 2 huge
  3. 3 large
  4. 4 major
  5. 5 great
  6. 6 wide
  7. 7 deep
  8. 8 older (than)
  9. 9 oldest
  10. 10 eldest
  11. 11 greatly
  12. 12 very much
  13. 13 (dialect) father
  14. 14 father's elder or younger brother
大吉
dà jí
  1. 1 very auspicious
  2. 2 extremely lucky
大家
dà jiā
  1. 1 everyone
  2. 2 influential family
  3. 3 great expert

Idioms (20)

一言九鼎
yī yán jiǔ dǐng
  1. 1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
不识大体
bù shí dà tǐ
  1. 1 to fail to see the larger issue (idiom)
  2. 2 to fail to grasp the big picture
久仰大名
jiǔ yǎng dà míng
  1. 1 I have been looking forward to meeting you for a long time (idiom)
久慕盛名
jiǔ mù shèng míng
  1. 1 I've admired your reputation for a long time (idiom); I've been looking forward to meeting you.
  2. 2 It's an honor to meet you at last.
人声鼎沸
rén shēng dǐng fèi
  1. 1 lit. a boiling cauldron of voices (idiom)
  2. 2 hubbub
  3. 3 brouhaha

Sample Sentences

小尤刚从警校毕业，就被安排到了市公安局的刑侦科，跟随大名鼎鼎的李探长。
Xiǎo Yóu gāng cóng jǐngxiào bìyè ，jiù bèi ānpái dào le shì gōng\'ānjú de xíngzhēnkē ，gēnsuí dàmíngdǐngdǐng de Lǐ tànzhǎng 。
After graduating from the police academy, Xiao You was assigned to the PSB's Criminal Investigation Department and placed under the leadership of the famous Detective Li.
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