俎 — Chinese character
俎
zǔ
chopping board or block; painted
- Pinyin
- zǔ
- Radical
- 9 ⼈ (Man)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 仌 且
- Formation
- pictographic — A slab of meat on a chopping board 且
- Japanese
- 俎 as a kanji
Common words with 俎
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 越俎代庖 | yuè zǔ dài páo | lit. to go beyond the sacrificial altar and take over the kitchen (idiom); fig. to exceed one's place and meddle in other people's affairs; to take matters into |
| 刀俎 | dāo zǔ | sacrificial knife and altar |
| 折冲樽俎 (折衝樽俎) | zhé chōng zūn zǔ | lit. to stop the enemy at the banquet table; fig. to get the better of an enemy during diplomatic functions |
俎 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Zhuangzi 3
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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