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

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

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

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

separation of powers

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