jiù
mortar
Pictograph of a mortar: a hollow vessel used to crush ingredients.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 臼
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
dislocation (of a joint) | ||
mortar | ||
molar tooth | ||
rut | ||
not follow the beaten track |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.[g]ʷəʔ | gjuwX | jiù | mortar |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4066th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+81FC |
Shuowen | “臼，舂也。古者掘地為臼，其後穿木石。象形，中米也。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.581
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