问鼎

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

to ask / to inquire

to ask; to inquire

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

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