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

the Nine Tripod Cauldrons, symbol of state power, dating back to the Xia Dynasty

lit. to set up the sacred tripods (following Yu the Great); to fix the capital; to found a dynasty; used in advertising

see 福鼎市[Fu2 ding3 Shi4]

to aspire to the throne; to aim at (the first place etc)

great; very important

one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight

lit. dip one's finger in the tripod (idiom); fig. to get one's finger in the pie; to get a share of the action