1 surname Dao

1 to aspire to the throne

2 to aim at (the first place etc)

1 vegetable knife

2 kitchen knife

3 cleaver

4 classifier: 把 bǎ

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

1 to lend sb a knife to kill sb

2 to get sb else to do one's dirty work

3 to attack using the strength of another (idiom)

1 lit. two segments with a single cut (idiom)

2 fig. to make a clean break (idiom)

1 lit. to cut all at one stroke (idiom); to impose uniformity

2 one solution fits a diversity of problems

3 one size fits all

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

1 lit. to be the meat on sb's chopping block (idiom)

2 fig. to be at sb's mercy

1 lit. a boiling cauldron of voices (idiom)

2 hubbub

3 brouhaha