嘗鼎一臠

Chinese

		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
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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chángdǐngyīluán

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄤˊ ㄉㄧㄥˇ ㄧ ㄌㄨㄢˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chángdǐngyīluán [Phonetic: chángdǐngyìluán]
    • 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/

Idiom

嘗鼎一臠

1. to infer something about a whole based on the characteristics of its parts