木訥

See also: 木讷

Chinese

		tree; wood	large; speak cautiously
trad. (木訥)		木	訥
simp. (木讷)		木	讷

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mùnè

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˋ ㄋㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): muk⁶ neot⁶, muk⁶ nat⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mùnè
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˋ ㄋㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mùnè
    • Wade–Giles: mu⁴-nê⁴
    • Yale: mù-nè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muhneh
    • Palladius: мунэ (munɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu⁵¹⁻⁵³ nɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: muk⁶ neot⁶, muk⁶ nat⁶
    • Yale: muhk neuht, muhk naht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: muk⁹ noet⁹, muk⁹ nat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mug⁶ nêd⁶, mug⁶ ned⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mʊk̚² nɵt̚²/, /mʊk̚² nɐt̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: muwk nwot

Rime
Character	木	訥
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	泥 (8)
Final (韻)	屋 (3)	沒 (56)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	莫卜切	内骨切
Baxter	muwk	nwot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muk̚/	/nuət̚/
Pan Wuyun	/muk̚/	/nuot̚/
Shao Rongfen	/muk̚/	/nuət̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məwk̚/	/nwət̚/
Li Rong	/muk̚/	/nuət̚/
Wang Li	/muk̚/	/nuət̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/muk̚/	/nuət̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mù	nù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	muk6	neot6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.mˤok  nˤut/

  (Zhengzhang): /*moːɡ  nuːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	木	訥
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mù	nè
Middle Chinese	‹ muwk ›	‹ nwot ›
Old Chinese	/*C.mˁok/	/*nˁut/
English	tree, wood	slow of speech
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	木	訥
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	9327	9404
Phonetic component	木	內
Rime group	屋	物
Rime subdivision	0	2
Corresponding MC rime	木
Old Chinese	/*moːɡ/	/*nuːd/

Adjective

木訥

1. (literary, of a person) honest but inarticulate