人为刀俎，我为鱼肉

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

person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

artificial / man-made / having human cause or origin / human attempt or effort

as (in the capacity of) / to take sth as / to act as / to serve as / to behave as / to become / to be / to do / by (in the passive voice)

because of / for / to

variant of 為|为[wei2] / as (i.e. in the capacity of) / to take sth as / to act as / to serve as / to behave as / to become / to be / to do

variant of 為|为[wei4]

variant of 為|为[wei2]

knife / blade / single-edged sword / cutlass / CL:把[ba3] / (slang) dollar (loanword) / classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper) / classifier for knife cuts or stabs

sacrificial knife and altar

a stand for food at sacrifice

I; me; my

surname Yu

fish / CL:條|条[tiao2],尾[wei3]

flesh of fish / fish and meat / (fig.) victims of oppression / (fig.) to cruelly oppress (i.e. to treat like flesh to be carved up)

meat / flesh / pulp (of a fruit) / (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy / (of a person) flabby / irresolute / Kangxi radical 130