jiù

common
technical

Meaning of

臼 means mortar (for hulling grain); concave-shaped; sunken in the middle. Pronounced jiù.

  • mortar (for hulling grain)
  • concave-shaped; sunken in the middle

Character Info

Radical
Strokes6
Components
丿
𠃌

Stroke Order

Definitions & Examples

dài
nóng
mín
yòng
jiù
chǔ
chōng
 

Ancient farmers used mortars and pestles to hull rice.

Zhè
zhǒng
chuán
tǒng
jiù
xiàn
zài
jīng
hěn
shǎo
jiàn
le
 

This traditional mortar is rarely seen nowadays.

Kǎo
xué
jiā
xiàn
le
xīn
shí
shí
dài
de
shí
jiù
 

Archaeologists discovered stone mortars from the Neolithic era.

Wài
jiā
hái
bǎo
liú
zhe
lǎo
jiù
 

My grandma's house still keeps an old wooden mortar.

Chōng
jiù
shì
chuán
tǒng
nóng
gēng
wén
míng
de
zhòng
yào
gōng
 

Mortars are important tools of traditional agricultural civilization.

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