俎

zǔ
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a stand for food at sacrifice

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

俎 was drawn as an altar for offerings, with its legs shown as 仌. 且 qiě is both picture and sound, though the link is not clear in Mandarin. From 'altar for offerings' it grew to mean a board for cutting meat.

Drawn as: altar for offerings; legs of altar

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Homophones

HSK 6
组zǔ
to form, to organize, class
祖zǔ
ancestor, forefather, grandparents
阻zǔ
to hinder, to block, to obstruct

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