臼

See also: 曰, 白, 日, and 鼠
臼 U+81FC, 臼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-81FC
← 臻
[U+81FB] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 臽 →
[U+81FD]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

臼 (radical 134, 臼+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹X (HX), four-corner 77770)

  1. Kangxi radical #134, ⾅.

Derived characters

  • Index:Chinese radical/臼

References

  • KangXi: page 1003, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30173
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1459, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3037, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+81FC

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 臼

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 臼
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (臼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
臼 *ɡuʔ
齨 *ɡuʔ
桕 *ɡuʔ
舅 *ɡuʔ
舊 *ɡʷɯs
匶 *ɡʷɯs
閰 *kuɡ

Pictogram (象形) : a mortar

Pronunciation

Note:
  • khǔ/khū - vernacular;
  • kiǔ/kiū - literary.
Rime
Character 臼
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 其九切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɡɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɡiuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɡiəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /guwX/
Li
Rong		 /ɡiuX/
Wang
Li		 /ɡĭəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /gi̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiù
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 臼
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ gjuwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.[ɡ]ʷəʔ/
English mortar

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 臼
Reading # 1/1
No. 6977
Phonetic
component		 臼
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 舅
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡuʔ/

Definitions

臼

  1. hollow vessel used to pound, crush ingredients; mortar
  2. that which looks like a mortar

Compounds

  • 不落窠臼 (bùluòkējiù)
  • 井臼
  • 大臼齒／大臼齿
  • 小臼齒／小臼齿
  • 操井臼
  • 杵臼 (chǔjiù)
  • 杵臼交
  • 杵臼關節／杵臼关节
  • 炊臼
  • 炊臼之夢／炊臼之梦
  • 炊臼之戚
  • 烏臼／乌臼
  • 窠臼 (kējiù)
  • 紡績井臼／纺绩井臼
  • 脫臼／脱臼 (tuōjiù)
  • 自操井臼

References

Japanese

Kanji

臼

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. millstone; mortar

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
臼
うす
Grade: S
kun’yomi

From Proto-Japonic *osu ~ usu.

Pronunciation

Noun

臼 (hiragana うす, rōmaji usu)

  1. mortar

See also

Korean

Hanja

臼 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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