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Translingual [edit]

Stroke order
木-order.gif

Etymology [edit]

Pictogram (象形) – a tree: branches on top, roots on the bottom (more visible in earlier forms).

木 木 木 木
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Han character [edit]

(radical 75 +0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 木 (D), four-corner 40900)

  1. tree
  2. wood, lumber
  3. wooden

Derived characters [edit]

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Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(jyutping muk6, Yale muk6)


Hakka [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(POJ muk, Guangdong muk7, Hagfa Pinyim mug5)

References [edit]


Japanese [edit]

Kanji [edit]

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

/ki2/: [kɨ] > [ki]. See bound apophonic form ko.

Noun [edit]

(hiragana , romaji ki)

  1. a tree; a shrub
  2. wood; timber; lumber
  3. (graph theory, computer science) a tree (data structure)
  4. First character of Mokuyōbi (Thursday) literally means ‘Weekday of Wood’
Derived terms [edit]

Etymology 2 [edit]

/ko2/: [kə] > [ko]. See unbound apophonic form ki.

Noun [edit]

(hiragana , romaji ko)

  1. a tree
Derived terms [edit]

Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]


Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: mok, McCune-Reischauer: mok, Yale: mok)
  • Name (hangeul): 나무 (revised: namu, McCune-Reischauer: namu, Yale: namu)
  1. (나무 목, namu-): wood
  2. (as an abbreviation) Thursday

Mandarin [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(pinyin (mu4), shù (shu4), Wade-Giles mu4, shu4)

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Middle Chinese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(*muk)


Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(mộc, móc, mọc, mốc, mục)