chopping board or block

A slab of meat on a chopping board 

Components
仌 iconic component

  Iconic component

bīng

  

且 iconic component

  Iconic component

qiě

  

moreover

Evolution

俎 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
俎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
俎 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
俎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

chopping board or block; painted; a stand for food at sacrifice

Most common words with 俎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

越俎代庖

to take matters into one's own hands

a stand for food at sacrifice

刀俎

sacrificial knife and altar

折冲樽俎

lit. to stop the enemy at the banquet table

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4909th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+4FCE

Shuowen

“俎,禮俎也。从半肉在且上。”


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