佐料
zuǒ liào · HSK 7
condiment
🧂 佐 (assist) + 料 (ingredient) = the helper ingredients that season a dish
料 — rice 米 + dipper 斗
料 combines 米 (rice/grain) with 斗 (a measuring dipper), depicting the act of measuring out grain. From this concrete sense it extended to 'to measure, estimate, anticipate' and to 'materials' (things measured out for use), as in 材料 'materials' and 预料 'to anticipate'.