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炊臼
chuī​jiù

to lose one's wife

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  • 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
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