Radical 134

臼
133 ⾄ ◄	134	► ⾆ 135
Pinyin :	jiù (= mortar)
Zhuyin :	ㄐ ㄧ ㄡ ˋ
Hiragana :	う す usu
Kanji :	臼 usu (= mortar)
Hangul :	절구
Sinocorean :	구 gu (= mortar)
Codepoint :	U + 81FC
Stroke sequence :

Radical 134 , meaning " mortar ", is one of 29 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese script that are written with six strokes.

With 14 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary, there are only a few characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

The radical "mortar" takes only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals, the 134th position. It can be found in a completely different place in modern abbreviation dictionaries. In the New Sino-German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, for example, it is in 129th position.

The seal form of this character shows a mortar and four dots in it that represent grains of rice to be ground . these have become the two short, unconnected horizontal lines inside in 臼.

In 桕 (in: 乌桕, a type of tree), 臼 functions as a sound carrier, as does 舅 (= uncle), which consists of the radical 臼 and 男 (= man). 舂 (= pound) shows in its seal form above a pounder, below it two hands, as well as the mortar 臼 (jiu) with its four grains of rice, a symbol constructed from four pictograms . 舀 (= scoop, spoon) consists of the claw 爪 (zhua) above and the mortar 臼 below the hand scoops out of the mortar. 插 (= stick in) shows on the right the combination 干 (gan = handle) and mortar 臼 push into the mortar, pound the grain. Both are combined characters, which get their meaning from the component 臼. 陷 (xian = pitfall), originally written without the left ear (阝), shows in its seal form a person in a pit (臼). 舁 (= lift something up), 臾 (= moment), 谀 (= flatter) seem to contain 臼, but the seal fonts show that there are two hands holding something up.

臼 in the head position of 鼠 (mouse) emerged from the image of a mouse head, so it has nothing to do with the mortar. This also applies to 儿 (= child). Here the upper component goes back to 囟 (= fontanel ). 叟 (= old man) originally consisted of the components above (宀 plus below 火), here too today's 臼 is only a replacement component without any particular meaning.

Character compounds ruled by radical 134

Mortar with sesame seeds

Strokes	character
+ 00	臼
+ 02	臽 臾
+ 03	臿
+ 04	舀 舁
+ 05	舂
+ 06	舃 舄
+ 07	舅 舆 與
+ 09	興
+11	舉
+12	舊
+13	舋

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 134 is coded under the code point number 12.165 (U + 2F85).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 131 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 134  - Graphic representations of Radikal 134

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 134 on page 120