臼

See also 曰, 白, 日, and 鼠

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

1. mortar
2. bone joint socket

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

臼 (Yale kau5, kau3)

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Hakka

Hanzi

臼 (POJ khiu, khíu, Guangdong k'iu¹; k'iu¹, k'iu³ [Hailu, Siyan], Hagfa Pinyim kiu1, kiu3)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

臼

Readings

• On: きゅう (kyū)
• Kun: うす (usu)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

臼 (pinyin jiù (jiu4), Wade-Giles chiu⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

臼 (cữu, cối)