zuò
meat offered in sacrifice to one's ancestors
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
zuò
meat offered in sacrifice to one's ancestors; to grant or bestow; sacrificial flesh offered to the gods (old); blessing; title of a sovereign (old)
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[dz]ˤak-s | dzuH | zuò | sacrificial meat and wine |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5896th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+80D9 |
Shuowen | “胙，祭福肉也。从肉，乍聲。” |
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