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臼 [jiù]
名词
1. A tool for pounding rice, made of stone or wood, with a hollowed center.
2. An object shaped like a mortar.
动词
Pound rice with pestles.
形容词
1. Having the shape of a molar; as in molar teeth. Terms like 臼齿 and 臼头深目 (describing an extremely ugly appearance) illustrate this meaning; also used in phrases like 臼科 (a pit resembling a mortar).
2. Low.
引文
1. "说文" (Shuōwén): 臼, 舂也. 古者掘地为臼,其后穿木石. (Mortar means to pound. In ancient times, they dug into the ground to make mortars, later using wood and stone.)
2. "易·系辞下" (Yì Xìcí Xià): 断木为杵,掘地为臼. (Chopping wood to make pestles and digging into the ground to make mortars.)
3. 贾思勰 (Jiǎ Sīxié) "齐民要术": 择满臼,舂之而不碎. (Select filled mortars and pound them without crushing.)
例子
如: 臼杵 (mortar and pestle); 臼塘 (a wooden mortar carved in the shape of a boat, also known as a vessel); 臼中无釜 (metaphor for a deceased wife).
2. Referring to objects resembling a mortar.
如: 药臼 (herb mortar); 石臼 (stone mortar); 捣臼 (pounding mortar).
动词
用臼舂米 (Pound rice with pestles).
引文
1. 清· 周容 "芋老人传": 织纺井臼. (In this context, 臼 is used as a verb: to pound rice.)
形容词
1. Shaped like a mortar; as in molar teeth. Examples include: molar teeth, 臼头深目 (extremely ugly), and 臼科 (mortar-shaped pit).
2. Low.
引文
1. 明· 刘基 "诚意伯刘文成公文集": 岸外而臼中. (In the center of the mortar means something is sunken.)
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