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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		臼

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiù (jiu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kau³, kau⁵
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): khiu, khíu
• Min Nan (POJ): khū

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jiù
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄡˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chiu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiow
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kau³, kau⁵
    • Yale: kau, káuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kau³, kau⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰɐu̯³³/, /kʰɐu̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khiu, khíu
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khū
    • Tâi-lô: khū
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰu²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (臼, reconstructed)
Character (臼), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 群 (30) Final: 尤 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 其九切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɡɨuX/	/gi̯ə̯uX/	/ɡiuX/	/ɡiuX/	/guwX/	/ɡĭəuX/	/ɡiəuX/
Character (臼), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 屋 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 居六切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kɨuk̚/	/ki̯uk̚/	/kiuk̚/	/kiuk̚/	/kuwk̚/	/kĭuk̚/	/kiuk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (臼, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
臼								jiù								‹ gjuwX ›								/*C.[ɡ]ʷəʔ/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
臼					6977					臼					幽					1					舅					/*ɡuʔ/

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

臼

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: きゅう (kyū)
• Kun: うす (usu)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: cữu, cối

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