鼎足之勢 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 鼎足之势 dǐngzúzhīshì ㄉㄧㄥˇ ㄗㄨˊ ㄓ ㄕˋ competition between three rivals tripartite confrontation Character by character 鼎(dǐng)ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs 足(zú)foot 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) 勢(shì)power A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0