炊臼之戚
chuī​jiù​zhī​qī

sorrow of losing one's wife

  • created reference approved 炊臼之戚 → 炊臼 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    炊臼之戚 chuī​jiù​zhī​qī

    炊臼 chuī​jiù

    see

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  • created sense approved 炊臼之戚 · chuī​jiù​zhī​qī · sorrow of losing one's wife — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    炊臼之戚

    chuī​jiù​zhī​qī

    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

    炊臼 (literal) → 炊臼 · chuī​jiù · to lose one's wife 之 (literal) → 之 · zhī · [possessive] 戚 (literal) → 戚 · qī · sorrow

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