击钟鼎食

击钟鼎食 in English

jī zhōng dǐng shí: (idiom) To dine to the sound of bells, with food served in rows of bronze vessels. It describes the luxurious lifestyle of aristocrats or the wealthy.

Character breakdown

击擊 jī to hit
钟鐘 zhōng a (large) bell (CL:架[jia4])
鼎 dǐng ancient cooking cauldron with two looped…
食 shí to eat

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 击

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.

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 食

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

How it used to be written

击

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

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 4 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

鼎

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 孫吳
See all 41 forms

食

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

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

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