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一言九鼎
yī yán jiǔ dǐng
What 一言九鼎 means
- one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
The characters in 一言九鼎
- 一yīone; single; a (article)
- 言yánwords; speech; to say
- 九jiǔnine; 9
- 鼎dǐngancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs; pot (dialect)…
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