搗
pound, husk
Readings
On'yomi
- トウ
Kun'yomi
- つ.く
- か.つ
Meaning
搗 centers on striking or crushing something repeatedly with a tool, especially to separate grain from its husk. The core idea is pounding or beating to process a material.
Most common words using 搗
- 七分搗きしちぶづき
seventy percent polished rice
- 三分搗さんぶつき
30% polished rice
- 半搗きはんつき
light-brown rice; half-polished rice; partially polishing rice
- 半搗き米はんつきまい
half-polished rice
- 南米搗蟹みなみこめつきがに
soldier crab (Mictyris brevidactylus)
- 搗きたてつきたて
freshly pounded (rice cake); fresh from the mortar
- 搗き交ぜるつきまぜる
to pound together; to mix together
- 搗き米つきごめ
polished rice
- 搗き臼つきうす
mortar (for pounding rice)
- 搗くつく
to hull (rice, barley, etc.); to pound (rice); to polish (rice); to stamp (ore)
- 搗布かじめ
Ecklonia cava (species of brown alga)
- 搗精とうせい
rice polishing (removing the shell of brown rice to leave white rice)
- 搗鉱機とうこうき
stamp mill; stamping mill; stamp battery
- 米搗きこめつき
rice polishing
- 米搗虫こめつきむし
click beetle; skipjack (beetle of family Elateridae)
- 紅米搗べにこめつき
(Japanese) red click beetle (Denticollis nipponicus)
- 臼搗くうすづく
to pound (rice, etc.)
- 野呂搗布のろかじめ
Ecklonia cava (species of brown alga)
- 麦搗きむぎつき
polishing wheat
Study
Etymology
搗 combines 扌 (hand) with 島, which likely contributes the sound トウ. The character expresses pounding or striking with the hand, as in husking grain.
Meaning mnemonic
The hand radical 扌 beside 島 (island) suggests a hand pounding grain on an island, separating the husk from the edible part.
Reading mnemonic
For トウ, imagine pounding grain with a toe: toe -> トウ, and your foot strikes the grain to husk it.