问鼎 (問鼎)
wèn dǐng
Pinyin

Definition

问鼎 (問鼎)
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wèn dǐng
  1. to aspire to the throne
  2. to aim at (the first place etc)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

问鼎
wèn dǐng
  1. 1 to aspire to the throne
  2. 2 to aim at (the first place etc)
一言九鼎
yī yán jiǔ dǐng
  1. 1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
大名鼎鼎
dà míng dǐng dǐng
  1. 1 grand reputation
  2. 2 renowned
  3. 3 famous
福鼎
Fú dǐng
  1. 1 Fuding county level city in Ningde 寧德|宁德[Níng dé], Fujian
鼎
dǐng
  1. 1 ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs
  2. 2 pot (dialect)
  3. 3 to enter upon a period of (classical)
  4. 4 Kangxi radical 206
  5. 5 one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes

Idioms (8)

一言九鼎
yī yán jiǔ dǐng
  1. 1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
人声鼎沸
rén shēng dǐng fèi
  1. 1 lit. a boiling cauldron of voices (idiom)
  2. 2 hubbub
  3. 3 brouhaha
问鼎中原
wèn dǐng Zhōng yuán
  1. 1 to plan to seize power of the whole country (idiom)
问鼎轻重
wèn dǐng qīng zhòng
  1. 1 lit. to inquire whether the tripods are light or heavy (idiom); a laughable attempt to seize power
染指于鼎
rǎn zhǐ yú dǐng
  1. 1 lit. dip one's finger in the tripod (idiom); fig. to get one's finger in the pie
  2. 2 to get a share of the action

Sample Sentences

不仅如此，15寸的‘晶亮’LCD液晶屏搭配市面上最高品质的视频和音频卡，使得X420完全有实力问鼎新一代笔记本电脑。和我们上一代X540系列产品相比，X420已经是无可匹敌。
bùjǐn rúcǐ ，shíwǔ cùn de ‘jīngliàng ’LCD yèjīngpíng dāpèi shìmiàn shàng zuì gāo pǐnzhì de shìpín hé yīnpín kǎ ，shǐde X sì\'èrlíng wánquán yǒu shílì wèndǐng xīnyīdài bǐjìběndiànnǎo 。hé wǒmen shàngyīdài X wǔsìlíng xìliè chǎnpǐn xiāngbǐ ，X sì\'èrlíng yǐjīng shì wúkěpǐdí 。
Moreover, the 15 inch LCD monitor is accompanied by the market's highest quality video and audio cards, putting the x420 at the top of the next generation of notebook computers. When compared with our previous generation of x540 computers, the x420 is without rival.
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