臼 Stroke Order

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.