to plan to seize power of the whole country (idiom)
trad. 問鼎中原
Also written 問鼎中原【wèn dǐng Zhōng yuán】
Characters in this word
4问
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to ask; to inquire
- Pinyin
- wèn
- Traditional
- 問
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 261 of 2500
鼎
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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
- Pinyin
- dǐng
- Strokes
- 12
中
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(bound form) China; Chinese, surname Zhong
- Pinyin
- Zhōng
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 147 of 2500
原
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surname Yuan, (Japanese surname) Hara
- Pinyin
- Yuán
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 6048 of 2500