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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「鼎足而居」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

Like the three legs of a tripod. A metaphor for a situation of three opposing parties.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dǐng zú ér jū

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ding2 juk1 yi4 geui1

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