臼 is a Japanese kanji written with 6 strokes, listed here under the keyword “mortar”. It is treated as a basic building block: it is not broken down any further here. In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 1531. It appears as a component in 6 other characters in this index.
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