炊臼
chuī​jiù

to lose one's wife

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

    炊臼 chuī​jiù

    臼 jiù

    see

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  • created sense approved 炊臼 · chuī​jiù · to lose one's wife — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    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 ([[臼|臼|jiu4]]), which, because it lacked a pot, sounded like having no wife.

    炊, 臼

    炊 (literal) → 炊 · chuī · to cook 臼 (literal) → 臼 · jiù · mortar

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

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