尝鼎一脔

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 尝鼎一脔 – see 嘗鼎一臠 (“tasting a piece of meat in the ding [is tasting all the meat in the ding]; to infer something about a whole based on the characteristics of its parts”). (This term, 尝鼎一脔, is the simplified form of 嘗鼎一臠).
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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