物

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

物 (Kangxi radical 93, 牛+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹手心竹竹 (HQPHH), four-corner 2752₀, composition ⿰牜勿)

Derived characters

• 惣

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 699, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19959
• Dae Jaweon: page 1111, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1805, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7269

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		物

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 物
Shang	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (勿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
脗	*minʔ
吻	*mɯnʔ
刎	*mɯnʔ
伆	*mɯnʔ, *mɯd
勽	*buːs, *mɯnʔ
沕	*mrɯd, *mɯd
忽	*hmɯːd
昒	*hmɯːd, *mɯd
惚	*hmɯːd
匫	*hmɯːd
笏	*hmɯːd
曶	*hmɯːd
淴	*ʔmɯːd
物	*mɯd
勿	*mɯd
芴	*mɯd
岉	*mɯd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mɯd) : semantic 牜 + phonetic 勿 (OC *mɯd).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wù (wu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mat⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): vu̍t
• Eastern Min (BUC): ŭk
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): mi̍h / mn̍gh / mih / bu̍t

  (Teochew, Peng'im): muêh⁸

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵veq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wù
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wù
    • Wade–Giles: wu⁴
    • Yale: wù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuh
    • Palladius: у (u)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mat⁶
    • Yale: maht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: med⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐt̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vu̍t
    • Hakka Romanization System: vud
    • Hagfa Pinyim: vud⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /vut̚⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ŭk
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /uʔ⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mi̍h
    • Tâi-lô: mi̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mih
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /mĩʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /mĩʔ¹²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mn̍gh
    • Tâi-lô: mn̍gh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mngh
    • IPA (Taipei): /mŋ̍ʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /mŋ̍ʔ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mih
    • Tâi-lô: mih
    • Phofsit Daibuun: miq
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /mĩʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /mĩʔ³²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bu̍t
    • Tâi-lô: bu̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: but
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /but̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /but̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /but̚¹²¹/

Note:

• mi̍h/mn̍gh/mih - vernacular;
• bu̍t - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: muêh⁸
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mue̍h
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mueʔ⁴/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵veq
    • MiniDict: veh^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²veq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /vəʔ³⁴/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 物
Mandarin	Beijing	/u⁵¹/
	Harbin	/u⁵³/
	Tianjin	/u⁵³/
	Jinan	/u²¹/
	Qingdao	/vu⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/u²⁴/
	Xi'an	/vo²¹/
	Xining	/v̩⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/vu¹³/
	Lanzhou	/və¹³/
	Ürümqi	/vu²¹³/
	Wuhan	/u²¹³/
	Chengdu	/u³¹/
	Guiyang	/u²¹/
	Kunming	/u³¹/
	Nanjing	/uʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/uəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/vəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/uʌʔ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/vəʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/vəʔ¹/ /məʔ¹/
	Suzhou	/vəʔ³/ /məʔ³/
	Hangzhou	/vəʔ²/
	Wenzhou	/vai²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/me²²/
	Tunxi	/mə¹¹/ /uə¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/u²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/u²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/uɨʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/vut̚⁵/
	Taoyuan	/vut̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/mɐt̚²/
	Nanning	/mɐt̚²²/
	Hong Kong	/mɐt̚²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/but̚⁵/ /miʔ⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/uʔ⁵/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/u²⁴/ /o²⁴/ 新
	Shantou (Teochew)	/mueʔ⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/vut̚³/ /mi³³/

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• Middle Chinese: mjut

Rime
Character	物
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	物 (60)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	文弗切
Baxter	mjut
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɨut̚/
Pan Wuyun	/miut̚/
Shao Rongfen	/miuət̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mut̚/
Li Rong	/miuət̚/
Wang Li	/mĭuət̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯uət̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mat6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.mut/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mɯd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	物
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wù
Middle Chinese	‹ mjut ›
Old Chinese	/*C.mut/
English	thing
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	物
Reading #	1/1
No.	13218
Phonetic component	勿
Rime group	物
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	物
Old Chinese	/*mɯd/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 物

1. thing, matter

   物體／物体  ―  wùtǐ  ―  object

   動物／动物  ―  dòngwù  ―  animal [lit. moving thing]

2. all of the outside world, excluding oneself
3. substance, content
4. Short for 物理 (wùlǐ, “physics”).
5. to choose, to select
6. to seek, to look for

   物色  ―  wùsè  ―  to seek out, to scout out

7. (Teochew) to do

   家己物 [Teochew]  ―  ga¹ gi⁷ muêh⁸ [Peng'im]  ―  do it by oneself

8. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 勿 (wù).

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Japanese

Kanji

物

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: もつ (motsu, Jōyō)、もち (mochi)
• Kan-on: ぶつ (butsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: もの (mono, 物, Jōyō)、もん (mon, 物)

Compounds

Compounds

• 好物(こうぶつ) (kōbutsu): favorite food
• 本物(ほんもの) (honmono): real
• 物語(ものがたり) (monogatari): tale, story
• 食(た)べ物(もの) (tabemono): food
• 着物(きもの) (kimono): kimono
• 動物(どうぶつ) (dōbutsu): animal
• 果物(くだもの) (kudamono): fruit
• 見物(けんぶつ) (kenbutsu): sightseeing
• 贋物(がんぶつ) (ganbutsu): a fake, an imitation, a knock-off

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
物
もの Grade: 3
kun'yomi

⟨mo₂no₂⟩ → ⟨mono₂⟩ → /mono/

From Old Japanese. Attested in the Kojiki.

Noun

物(もの) • (mono) 

1. thing (concrete, tangible)
   1. (law) a corporeal object
      • Japanese Civil Code, Article 85

        この法律(ほうりつ)において「物(もの)」とは、有体物(ゆうたいぶつ)をいう。

        Kono hōritsu ni oite “mono” to wa, yūtaibutsu o iu.

        The term "Things" as used in this Code shall mean tangible thing.

See also

• 事 (koto, “thing”, abstract, intangible)

Suffix

物(もの) • (-mono) 

1. story, genre (type of story)

   探偵(たんてい)もののドラマ

   tantei-mono no dorama

   detective drama

   冒険(ぼうけん)ものです。

   Bōken-mono desu.

   It is an adventure story.

Etymology 2

/mono/ → /mon/

Shift from mono above.

Noun

物(もん) • (mon) 

1. (informal) thing

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Korean

Hanja

物 • (mul)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 물 (revised: mul, McCune–Reischauer: mul, Yale: mul)
  • Name (hangeul): 물건
    (revised: mulgeon, McCune–Reischauer: mulgŏn, Yale: mwulken)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 物 (vật)

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