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Kotomora

搗

pound, husk

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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

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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.