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Meaning of 臼

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Pinyin: jiù
English Definition: mortar
Chinese Definition:
①舂米的器具,用石头或木头制成,中间凹下。
②形状像臼的:臼齿。
Total strokes: 6; Radical: ; Structure: 臼 + *
Pictographic: A mortar used to grind out powders
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Example Words
臼齿 jiù chǐ molar tooth
窠臼 jiù stereotypical pattern; rut
脱臼 tuō jiù dislocation (of a joint)
不落窠臼 luò jiù not follow the beaten track; have an original style
前臼齿 qián jiù chǐ premolar tooth (immediately behind canine teeth in some mammals)
More: 臼* | *臼 | *臼*
Example Sentences
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At one end of the factory the supervisor stood over a white porcelain mortar.
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Police found a body in Gunma Prefecture Saturday morning a week after Japanese cartoonist Yoshito Usui was reported missing.
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使寿
广使
The devices, whose ball-and-socket joints are made from metals like cobalt and chromium, became widely used in the belief that they would be more durable than previous types of implants.
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He said that the surgeon who had implanted Mr. Smith' s artificial hip had installed the cup component slightly askew.
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The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a handmill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into cakes.