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臼 [jiù]
名
1. A tool for pounding rice, made of stone or wood, with a hollow center.
(English: mortar)
2. Refers to an object resembling a mortar.
(English: article resembling a mortar)
动
To pound rice with a mortar.
(English: pound rice with pestles)
形
1. Shaped like a mortar.
(English: molar)
Examples: molar teeth; deep-set eyes (describing someone extremely ugly); depressions resembling mortars.
2. Low.
(English: low)
引
1. In "Shuowen Jiezi": The mortar is for pounding. In ancient times, they dug the ground to create mortars, later using wood and stone.
2. In "I Ching, Commentary": Cut wood into pestles, dig the ground to create mortars.
3. In Jia Sixie's "Qimin Yaoshu": Choose a full mortar, pound it without breaking.
例
Examples include: mortar and pestle; a wooden mortar shaped like a boat, also called a mortar pond; "no cauldron in the mortar" (a metaphor for a deceased wife).
引
1. From Qing Dynasty author Zhou Rong's "The Biography of Elder Yu": Weaving, spinning, and mortaring. (Here, "mortaring" as a verb: to pound rice.)
2. In Ming Dynasty author Liu Ji's "Collected Works of Liu Wencheng": Enclosed within the shore but low in the center.