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Exact character matches appear first. For otherwise comparable matches, frequency in film and television subtitles helps determine order. Direct English-definition matches and prefix matches also affect ranking. Word length and the availability of usage notes do not improve rank.

Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.

俎zǔ

a stand for food at sacrifice

Full entry
越俎代庖yuè zǔ dài páo

lit. to go beyond the sacrificial altar and take over the kitchen (idiom) / fig. to exceed one's place and meddle in other people's affairs / to take matters into one's own hands

人为刀俎,我为鱼肉rén wéi dāo zǔ , wǒ wéi yú ròu

(lit.) to be the meat on sb's chopping block (idiom) / (fig.) to be at sb's mercy

刀俎dāo zǔ

sacrificial knife and altar

折冲樽俎zhé chōng zūn zǔ

lit. to stop the enemy at the banquet table / fig. to get the better of an enemy during diplomatic functions

Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27
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