刀俎

刀俎

Chinese

		knife	a stand for food at sacrifice
simp. and trad. (刀俎)		刀	俎

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dāozǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄠ ㄗㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dou¹ zo²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: dāozǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄠ ㄗㄨˇ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dautzuu
    • IPA ^(key): /tɑʊ̯⁵⁵ t͡su²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dou¹ zo²
    • Yale: dōu jó
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dou¹ dzo²
    • Guangdong Romanization: dou¹ zo²
    • IPA ^(key): /tou̯⁵⁵ t͡sɔː³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /tɑu  t͡ʃɨʌ^X/▼

Rime
Character	刀	俎
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)	莊 (18)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	都勞切	側吕切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tɑu/	/t͡ʃɨʌX/
Pan Wuyun	/tɑu/	/ʈ͡ʂiɔX/
Shao Rongfen	/tɑu/	/t͡ʃiɔX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/taw/	/ʈ͡ʂɨə̆X/
Li Rong	/tɑu/	/t͡ʃiɔX/
Wang Li	/tɑu/	/t͡ʃĭoX/
Bernard Karlgren	/tɑu/	/ʈ͡ʂi̯woX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dāo	zhǔ

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*taːw  ʔsraʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	刀
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dāo
Middle Chinese	‹ taw ›
Old Chinese	/*C.tˁaw/
English	knife
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	刀	俎
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	2108	10447
Phonetic component	刀	且
Rime group	宵	魚
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*taːw/	/*ʔsraʔ/

Noun

刀俎

1. (literary) butcher's knife and chopping block; (figuratively) oppressor; persecutor

Derived terms

人為刀俎，我為魚肉／人为刀俎，我为鱼肉 (rén wéi dāozǔ, wǒ wéi yúròu)

刀俎餘生／刀俎余生 (dāozǔyúshēng)