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Ding (vessel)

Ding (Chinese: 鼎; pinyin: dǐng) are prehistoric and ancient Chinese cauldrons standing upon legs with a lid and two facing handles. They are one of the most important shapes used in Chinese ritual bronzes. They were made in two shapes: round vessels with three legs and rectangular ones with four, the latter often called fāng dǐng (方鼎; 'square ding').…

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Baxter–Sagart (2014)
*tˤengʔ
Chinese
鼎
Hanyu Pinyin
dǐng
Hokkien POJ
tiáⁿ (col.) téng (lit.)
IPA
[tìŋ] · [tɪŋ˧˥]
Jyutping
ding2

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Ding (vessel)

Nodes55
Edges54
Triples15
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.036364
Components1

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Ding (vessel)

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IPA · 2
Ding (vessel) → [tìŋ], [tɪŋ˧˥]
Baxter–Sagart (2014) · 1
Ding (vessel) → *tˤengʔ
Chinese · 1
Ding (vessel) → 鼎
Hanyu Pinyin · 1
Ding (vessel) → dǐng
Hokkien POJ · 1
Ding (vessel) → tiáⁿ (col.) téng (lit.)
Jyutping · 1
Ding (vessel) → ding2
Transcriptions · 1
Ding (vessel) → TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyindǐngWade–Gilesting3IPA[tìŋ]Yue: CantoneseYale RomanizationdíngJyutpingding2IPA[tɪŋ˧˥]Southern MinHokkien POJtiáⁿ (col.) téng (lit.)Ol…
Wade–Giles · 1
Ding (vessel) → ting3
Yale Romanization · 1
Ding (vessel) → díng
Zhengzhang · 1
Ding (vessel) → *kleːŋʔ

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ding bronze vessels zhou chinese used ritual shang vessel art china western new ancient one isbn period bronzes often dynasty

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Ding (vessel)Baxter–Sagart (2014)*tˤengʔ1.00infobox
Ding (vessel)Chinese鼎1.00infobox
Ding (vessel)Hanyu Pinyindǐng1.00infobox
Ding (vessel)Hokkien POJtiáⁿ (col.) téng (lit.)1.00infobox
Ding (vessel)IPA[tìŋ]1.00infobox
Ding (vessel)IPA[tɪŋ˧˥]1.00infobox
Ding (vessel)Jyutpingding21.00infobox
Ding (vessel)TranscriptionsTranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyindǐngWade–Gilesting3IPA[tìŋ]Yue: CantoneseYale RomanizationdíngJyutpingding2IPA[tɪŋ˧˥]Southern MinHokkien POJtiáⁿ (col.) téng (lit.)Ol…1.00infobox
Ding (vessel)Wade–Gilesting31.00infobox
Ding (vessel)Yale Romanizationdíng1.00infobox
Ding (vessel)Zhengzhang*kleːŋʔ1.00infobox
snoutsinstance ofThis motif can range from as simple as two protruding half spheres in an otherwise featureless plane to as complex as highly detailed mask-like faces with various animal features0.80text

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