MORTAR    碓臼

HEAVY VESSEL of the SHAPE of a BIG CUP which is USED TO GRIND OR MIX FOOD IN.
Old Chinese Criteria
NB: that the discovery in Han times of what is called today the shuǐ mó 水磨 "wet mill" was connected with the development of Toufu. The wet mill was apparently still simply called mó 磨.
Modern Chinese Criteria
碓臼 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • VESSEL　HARD CONTAINER USED FOR PUTTING SUBSTANCES INTO it. (anc: 6/0, child: 11)
  • CONTAINER　ARTEFACT PRODUCED TO CONTAIN THINGS. (anc: 5/0, child: 3)
  • ARTEFACT　THING PRODUCED by MAN. (anc: 4/0, child: 26)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 9.55

  • 漢代無知文化資料圖說 ( SUN JI) p. 17

    • Words (9 items)

    臼  jiù OC: ɡuʔ MC: gɨu 4 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nheavy stone mortar (same type as that still widely used in China and South East Asia)
    • nadVin a mortar; using a mortar
    碓  duì OC: k-luuls MC: tuo̝i 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nHYDCD 7.1056 has picture: mortar with stone club, later mechanised device combining these two into one contraption for the process of chōng 舂. This requires skill avoiding to squash the grain by not pounding too hard, and pounding hard enough to remove the husk. The device was moved with one's feet in Platform Sutra times: 蹋碓
    杵  chǔ OC: ŋʰjaʔ MC: tɕhi̯ɤ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nbroad stick of stone used to quash things in a mortar; mace
    水碓  shuǐ duì OC: qhjulʔ k-luuls MC: ɕi tuo̝i 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPmill run by water, water mill
    颺扇  yáng shàn OC: k-laŋ qhjens MC: ji̯ɐŋ ɕiɛn 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPa mechanised winnowing device first mention in SONG sources, but in Han times the device existed, being called simply shàn 扇
    扇  shàn OC: qhjens MC: ɕiɛn 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nHAN: mechanised winnowing device (YAN SHIGU: 扇車)
    磑  wèi OC: ŋɡʷɯɯls MC: ŋuo̝i 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nLUNHENG: stone mill
    磨  mò OC: maals MC: mʷɑ 0 Attributions

    NB: that the discovery in Han times of what is called today the shuǐ mó 水磨 "wet mill" was connected with the development of Toufu. The wet mill was apparently still simply called mó 磨.

      Syntactic words
    • nMO: stone mill
    礱  lóng OC: b-rooŋ MC: luŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nQIMINYAOSHU: stone mill
    • vtoNGY: to grind in mill