鼎

ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs / pot (dialect) / to enter upon a period of (classical) / Kangxi radical 206 / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes

grand reputation / renowned / famous

to aspire to the throne / to aim at (the first place etc)

one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight

lit. a boiling cauldron of voices (idiom) / hubbub / brouhaha

to plan to seize power of the whole country (idiom)

lit. to inquire whether the tripods are light or heavy (idiom); a laughable attempt to seize power

lit. to set up the sacred tripods (following Yu the Great) / to fix the capital / to found a dynasty / used in advertising

the prime of one's life

lit. dip one's finger in the tripod (idiom); fig. to get one's finger in the pie / to get a share of the action

separation of powers

the Nine Tripod Cauldrons, symbol of state power, dating back to the Xia Dynasty

knife, saw and cauldron / ancient instruments of torture / fig. torture