zǔ
chopping board or block
A slab of meat on a chopping board 且
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 俎
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
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to take matters into one's own hands | ||
a stand for food at sacrifice | ||
sacrificial knife and altar | ||
lit. to stop the enemy at the banquet table |