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染指于鼎

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4-character word Traditional 染指於鼎

What 染指于鼎 means

1. lit. dip one's finger in the tripod (idiom); fig. to get one's finger in the pie
2. to get a share of the action

The characters in 染指于鼎

• 染rǎnto dye; to catch (a disease); to acquire (bad habits etc)
• 指zhǐfinger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to
• 于yúto go; to take; sentence-final interrogative particle
• 鼎dǐngancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs; pot (dialect)…