zuò

meat offered in sacrifice to one's ancestors

Components

Meaning component
ròu meat, flesh

meat

Sound component
zhà, zuò suddenly

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdzuH[dz]ˤak-ssacrificial meat and wine
Zhengzhangzaːɡs

說文解字

祭福肉也。从肉乍聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica