問鼎中原 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 问鼎中原 wèndǐngzhōngyuán ㄨㄣˋ ㄉㄧㄥˇ ㄓㄨㄥ ㄩㄢˊ to plan to seize power of the whole country (idiom) Character by character 問(wèn)ask 鼎(dǐng)ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs 中(zhōng)middle 原(yuán)surname Yuan A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0