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To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「鐘鳴鼎列」 explained, free of charge.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「鐘鳴鼎列」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Refers to a high-ranking official. Same as “the sound of bells and tripods”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhōng míng dǐng liè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jung1 ming4 ding2 lit6

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