Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- zǔ
English
- chopping board or block
- a stand for food at sacrifice
- painted
As a component in
Words containing 俎
- 刀俎dou1 zo2
sacrificial knife and altar
- 越俎代庖jyut6 zo2 doi6 paau4
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
- 肉俎砧板上juk6 ceoi4 zam1 baan2 soeng6
(literally: flesh on the chopping board); to be forced into an undesirable action; to have no choice or way out; to have no choice but to allow others to manipulate and humiliate oneself
- 人爲刀俎jan4 wai4 dou1 zo2
- 刀俎魚肉dou1 zo2 jyu4 juk6
- 折衝樽俎zit3 cung1 zeon1 zo2
lit. to stop the enemy at the banquet table