臼

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See also: 𦥑, 曰, 白, 日, and 鼠
臼 U+81FC, 臼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-81FC
← 臻
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 臽 →
⾅ U+2F85, ⾅
KANGXI RADICAL MORTAR
← ⾄
 		Kangxi Radicals ⾆ →

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

臼 (Kangxi radical 134, 臼+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹難 (HX), four-corner 77770, composition ⿵⿲丨⿱丿一⿹𠃍一一)

  1. Kangxi radical #134, ⾅.

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1003, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30173
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1459, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): 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:
  • kô - vernacular;
  • kêu - litereary.
Note:
  • khǔ/khū - vernacular;
  • kiǔ/kiū - literary.
Note:
  • ku6 - vernacular;
  • giu6 - 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
Baxter gjuwX
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gau6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 臼
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jiù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ gjuwX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C.ʷəʔ/
English mortar

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

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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. mortar (hollow vessel used to pound or crush ingredients)
  2. something which resembles a mortar

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

臼

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. millstone; mortar

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
臼
うす
Grade: S
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 臼 – see the following entry.
【うす】
臼, 碓: mortar
Alternative spelling
碓
(This term, 臼, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
臼
おす
Grade: S
irregular
For pronunciation and definitions of 臼 – see the following entry.
【おす】
臼: (dialectal, Yamagata) mortar
(This term, 臼, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

臼 (eum 구 (gu))

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Vietnamese

Han character

臼: Hán Nôm readings: cối, cữu

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