Read Edit View history 炊臼之戚 chuījiùzhīqī sorrow of losing one's wife Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Senses Add sense 炊臼之戚 chuījiùzhīqī sorrow of losing one's wife A literary idiom for the grief caused by the death of a wife; derived from an anecdote where cooking in a mortar (jiù) symbolized being without a pot (fǔ), a homophone for wife (fù) in certain dialects Edit Delete References Add reference see 炊臼之戚/炊臼之戚 → 炊臼/炊臼 Edit Delete
炊臼之戚 chuījiùzhīqī sorrow of losing one's wife A literary idiom for the grief caused by the death of a wife; derived from an anecdote where cooking in a mortar (jiù) symbolized being without a pot (fǔ), a homophone for wife (fù) in certain dialects Edit Delete