木村

Chinese

		tree; wood	village
simp. and trad. (木村)		木	村

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Mùcūn

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˋ ㄘㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): muk⁶ cyun¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Mùcūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˋ ㄘㄨㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Mùcun
    • Wade–Giles: Mu⁴-tsʻun¹
    • Yale: Mù-tswūn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Muhtsuen
    • Palladius: Муцунь (Mucunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu⁵¹ t͡sʰu̯ən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: muk⁶ cyun¹
    • Yale: muhk chyūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: muk⁹ tsyn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mug⁶ qun¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mʊk̚² t͡sʰyːn⁵⁵/

Proper noun

木村

1. An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 木村, Kimura

Japanese

Kanji in this term
木	村
き Grade: 1	むら Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 木(き) (ki, “tree”) + 村(むら) (mura, “village”). Literally, “tree village”.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) きむら [kìmúrá] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [kʲimɯ̟ᵝɾa̠]

Proper noun

木(き)村(むら) • (Kimura) 

1. A historical village in Gamō district, Ōmi, Tōsandō, Japan; equivalent to the former place in Gamō, Gamō district, Shiga Prefecture, now a place in Higashiōmi, Shiga Prefecture.
2. a surname

   木(き)村(むら)拓(たく)哉(や) ― kimura Takuya ― Takuya Kimura

Descendants

• → Chinese: 木村 (Mùcūn)
• → English: Kimura