鼎, three-legged ancient Chinese cooking vessel/tripod cauldron, serves as a semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the the semantic component 鼎 express things related to the cooking vessel/tripod caldron. 鼎 also serves as a phonetic component.
Characters formed by the semantic component 鼎
鼏 鼐 鼒 mì nài zī
Characters formed by the phonetic component 鼎
薡 鼑 濎 dǐng