chuī​jiù

to lose one's wife

Senses

炊臼 chuī​jiù to lose one's wife

To be deprived of one's wife; to be widowed. This literary expression comes from a story about a dream of cooking in a mortar ( jiù), which, because it lacked a pot, sounded like having no wife.

References

see 炊臼/炊臼 臼/臼
see 炊臼之戚/炊臼之戚 炊臼/炊臼