舂

舂 (Kangxi radical 134, 臼+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手大竹難 (QKHX), four-corner 5077₇, composition ⿱𡗗臼)

• This character is not to be confused with 春 (U+6625) which is visually similar but unrelated.

• 𠌴, 𠽅, 𢠅, 摏, 𣻛, 樁, 𥊎, 䄝, 𥡟, 𧐍, 𧜧, 蹖, 𩥫, 𪄻, 㦼, 䚎, 𪅖, 𬸥, 𩮱, 憃, 𦦜, 𧢆, 𦦱, 𪆊, 𦦺, 𦦾, 𫴛

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1003, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30195
• Dae Jaweon: page 1460, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3039, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8202

Historical forms of the character 舂
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 廾 (“both hands”) + 午 (“pestle”) + 臼 (“mortar”) – using both hands to pound with a mortar and pestle.

舂

1. to pound on grains in a mortar in order to husk them
2. (Cantonese, Hakka, Southern Min, Shanghainese) to hit with a fist; to punch
3. (Cantonese) to fall (especially head down)

• “舂”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. to grind in a mortar

• Go-on: しゅ (shu)
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)
• Kun: うすずく (usuzuku, 舂く)^{←うすづく (usuduku, 舂く, historical)}; うすつく (usutsuku, 舂く)

舂 • (yong, song, chang) (hangeul 용, 송, 창, revised yong, song, chang, McCune–Reischauer yong, song, ch'ang, Yale yong, song, chang)

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舂: Hán Nôm readings: thung

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