嘗鼎一臠
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Chinese[edit]
to taste; flavour; indicator of past tense to taste; flavour; indicator of past tense; already; ever; once; test; formerly |
ancient bronze cauldron; throne; (Min) wok | one; single; a one; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.) |
skinny; sliced meat | ||
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trad. (嘗鼎一臠) | 嘗 | 鼎 | 一 | 臠 | |
simp. (尝鼎一脔) | 尝 | 鼎 | 一 | 脔 | |
Literally: “tasting a piece of meat in the ding [is tasting all the meat in the ding]”. |
Pronunciation[edit]
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄔㄤˊ ㄉㄧㄥˇ ㄧ ㄌㄨㄢˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: chángdǐngyiluán
- Wade–Giles: chʻang2-ting3-i1-luan2
- Yale: cháng-dǐng-yī-lwán
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: charngdiingiluan
- Palladius: чандинъилуань (čandinʺiluanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵ tiŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ lu̯än³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Idiom[edit]
嘗鼎一臠
- to infer something about a whole based on the characteristics of its parts