俎

俎 U+4FCE, 俎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4FCE ← 俍 [U+4FCD] CJK Unified Ideographs 俏 → [U+4FCF]

俎 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 人人月一 (OOBM), four-corner 8781₀, composition ⿰仌且)

1. chopping board or chopping block
2. painted

• 葅 𫦆

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 104, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 679
• Dae Jaweon: page 221, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 156, character 4
• Unihan data for U+4FCE

simp. and trad.		俎
alternative forms		爼 𤕲 且

Pictogram (象形) – sacrificial altar for meat. The altar's legs are on the left and the vessel is on the right.

俎

1. (historical) sacrificial altar; stand or vessel for meat and food sacrifice
2. (literary) chopping board; chopping block
3. a surname

• “俎”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: しょ (sho)
• Kan-on: そ (so)
• Kun: まないた (manaita, 俎)

Kanji in this term
俎
そ Hyōgai
on'yomi

Borrowing from Middle Chinese 俎 (MC tsrjoX, “a wooden stand used in offering rites”). Compare modern Cantonese reading zo².

• (Tokyo) そ [sóꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [so̞]

俎(そ) • (so) 

1. sacrificial altar
2. cutting board; a chopping board

This reading appears to be less common. For the cutting board sense in particular, the manaita reading below is more common.

Kanji in this term
俎
まないた Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 俎 – see the following entry.

【まな板いた】 [noun] a chopping board, a cutting board [noun] (slang) a girl with a flat chest (compare the English expression flat as a board) Alternative spellings 俎板, 真魚板

(This term, 俎, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

俎 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune–Reischauer cho)

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