To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「嚐鼎一臠」 explained, free of charge.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「嚐鼎一臠」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Ding: an ancient cooking utensil with three legs and two handles; 臠: meat cut into pieces. By tasting a piece of meat in the pot, you can know the flavor of the whole meat in the pot.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
cháng dǐng yī luán
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
seung4 ding2 yat1 lyun5
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