Radical 134
| 臼 | ||
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| 臼 (U+81FC) "mortar, joint" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | jiù | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄐㄧㄡˋ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | jiow | |
| Wade–Giles: | chiu4 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | káuh, kau | |
| Jyutping: | kau5, kau3 | |
| Japanese Kana: | キュウ kyū (on'yomi) うす usu (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 구 gu | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 臼/うす usu | |
| Hangul: | 절구 jeolgu | |
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Radical 134 or radical mortar (臼部) meaning "mortar" or "joint" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 71 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
臼 is also the 136th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with