釜

kettle / cauldron

"eight" component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 八[ba1]

one of the characters used in kwukyel, an ancient Korean writing system

father

king or monarch / best or strongest of its type / grand / great

to rule / to reign over

Busan Metropolitan City in South Gyeongsang Province 慶尚南道|庆尚南道[Qing4 shang4 nan2 dao4], South Korea

lit. to break the cauldrons and sink the boats (idiom); fig. to cut off one's means of retreat / to burn one's boats

out of the frying pan into the fire (idiom)

Busan Metropolitan City in South Gyeongsang Province 慶尚南道|庆尚南道[Qing4 shang4 nan2 dao4], South Korea

Busan Metropolitan City in South Gyeongsang Province 慶尚南道|庆尚南道[Qing4 shang4 nan2 dao4], South Korea

to take drastic measures to deal with a situation / to pull the carpet from under sb

a fish at the bottom of the pot (idiom) / in a desperate situation

lit. earthern pots make more noise than classical bells / good men are discarded in favor of bombastic ones (idiom)

pressure chamber / pressurized cauldron

cauldron