扛鼎

Chinese

		carry on one's shoulder; lift overhead with both hands	ancient bronze cauldron; throne; (Min) wok
simp. and trad. (扛鼎)		扛	鼎

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gāngdǐng

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄤ ㄉㄧㄥˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gāngdǐng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄤ ㄉㄧㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gangdǐng
    • Wade–Giles: kang¹-ting³
    • Yale: gāng-dǐng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gangdiing
    • Palladius: гандин (gandin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɑŋ⁵⁵ tiŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

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• Middle Chinese: kaewng tengX

Rime
Character	扛	鼎
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	江 (9)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	IV
Fanqie	古雙切	都挺切
Baxter	kaewng	tengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠʌŋ/	/teŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚɔŋ/	/teŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/kɔŋ/	/tɛŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kaɨwŋ/	/tɛjŋX/
Li Rong	/kɔŋ/	/teŋX/
Wang Li	/kɔŋ/	/tieŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/kɔŋ/	/tieŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiāng	dǐng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gong1	ding2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kroːŋ  kleːŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鼎
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dǐng
Middle Chinese	‹ tengX ›
Old Chinese	/*tˁeŋʔ/
English	cauldron
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	扛	鼎
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	3997	2415
Phonetic component	工	鼎
Rime group	東	耕
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	江	頂
Old Chinese	/*kroːŋ/	/*kleːŋʔ/

Verb

扛鼎

1. to raise a 鼎 (dǐng)
2. to seize power

Adjective

扛鼎

1. strong
2. able to undertake heavy responsibility

Proper noun

扛鼎

1. Xiang Yu