Read Edit View history 炊臼 chuījiù to lose one's wife Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 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 jiù), which, because it lacked a pot, sounded like having no wife. Cross-References See 臼 jiùReferenced by 炊臼之戚 chuījiùzhīqī
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 jiù), which, because it lacked a pot, sounded like having no wife. Cross-References See 臼 jiùReferenced by 炊臼之戚 chuījiùzhīqī