问鼎中原

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

to ask / to inquire

to ask; to inquire

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

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

China / Chinese / surname Zhong

within / among / in / middle / center / while (doing sth) / during / (dialect) OK / all right

to hit (the mark) / to be hit by / to suffer / to win (a prize, a lottery)

Central Plain, the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei

surname Yuan / (Japanese surname) Hara

former / original / primary / raw / level / cause / source