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): ㄍㄤㄉㄧㄥˇ

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

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/	/teŋ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚɔŋ/	/teŋ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/kɔŋ/	/tɛŋ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kaɨwŋ/	/tɛjŋ^X/
Li Rong	/kɔŋ/	/teŋ^X/
Wang Li	/kɔŋ/	/tieŋ^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kɔŋ/	/tieŋ^X/
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	‹ teng^X ›
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

to raise a 鼎 (dǐng)
to seize power

Adjective

扛鼎

strong
able to undertake heavy responsibility

Proper noun

扛鼎

Xiang Yu