五鼎万钟

五鼎万钟 in English

wǔ dǐng wàn zhōng: (idiom) Refers to high office accompanied by generous pay and privileges.

Character breakdown

五 wǔ five
鼎 dǐng ancient cooking cauldron with two looped…
万萬 wàn ten thousand
钟鐘 zhōng a (large) bell (CL:架[jia4])

Stroke order

Le caractère 五 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 五

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 万 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 万

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 钟 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 钟

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

五

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 17 forms

鼎

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 孫吳
See all 41 forms

万

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢至魏晉
See all 3 forms

钟

These are the forms of 鐘, the traditional character: 钟 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Bronze script 西周中期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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