木

See also: 朩, ホ, and 禾
木 U+6728, 木
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6728
← 朧
[U+6727]
CJK Unified Ideographs 朩 →
[U+6729]
⽊ U+2F4A, ⽊
KANGXI RADICAL TREE
← ⽉
[U+2F49]
Kangxi Radicals ⽋ →
[U+2F4B]

Translingual

Stroke order
4 strokes
Stroke order

Alternative forms

  • In Hong Kong and Taiwan, when 木 is at the bottom of a character, it is written as 朩 without a hook instead of 木 itself.

Han character

木 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 木 (D), four-corner 40900, composition ⿻十𠆢)

  1. Kangxi radical #75, ⽊.

Derived characters

Descendants

  • Japanese: 𛀧 (Hentaigana)

References

  • KangXi: page 509, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14415
  • Dae Jaweon: page 888, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1149, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6728

Chinese

simp. and trad.
木

Glyph origin

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

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

Etymology

No known cognate exists. It can perhaps be compared with Proto-Karen *məŋᴮ (“trunk (of a tree); firewood”) (Starostin) or Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔmuk (“stump (of a tree)”) (Schuessler, 2007).

The common Sino-Tibetan root for “tree; wood” is *siŋ ~ sik, represented by 薪 (OC *siŋ, “firewood”).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • ba̍k - vernacular;
  • bo̍k - literary.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 木
Mandarin Beijing /mu⁵¹/
Harbin /mu⁵³/
Tianjin /mu⁵³/
Jinan /mu²¹/
Qingdao /mu⁴²/
Zhengzhou /mu²⁴/
Xi'an /mu²¹/
Xining /mv̩⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /mu¹³/
Lanzhou /mu¹³/
Ürümqi /mu²¹³/
Wuhan /mu²¹³/
/moŋ²¹³/
Chengdu /mu³¹/
/mu¹³/
Guiyang /mu²¹/
Kunming /mu³¹/
Nanjing /muʔ⁵/
Hefei /məʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /məʔ²/
Pingyao /mʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /mu⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /moʔ¹/
Suzhou /moʔ³/
Hangzhou /moʔ²/
Wenzhou /mu²¹³/
Hui Shexian /mɔ²²/
Tunxi /mo¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /mo²⁴/
Xiangtan /mo²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /muʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /muk̚¹/
Taoyuan /muk̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /mok̚²/
Nanning /muk̚²²/
Hong Kong /muk̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /bɔk̚⁵/
/bak̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /muʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /mu⁴²/
Shantou (Min Nan) /bak̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /mok̚³/
/vak̚³/

Rime
Character 木
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 東 (3)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 莫卜切
Baxter muwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/muk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/muk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/muk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/məwk̚/
Li
Rong
/muk̚/
Wang
Li
/muk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/muk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
muk6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 木
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
mù
Middle
Chinese
‹ muwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.mˁok/
English tree, wood

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 9327
Phonetic
component
木
Rime
group
屋
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
木
Old
Chinese
/*moːɡ/

Definitions

木

  1. tree; woody plant
    Synonym: 樹/树 (shù)
    樹木/树木  ―  shùmù  ―  tree
    灌木  ―  guànmù  ―  shrub
  2. wood; timber
    木頭/木头  ―  mùtou  ―  log
  3. wooden
    這張桌子是木的。/这张桌子是木的。  ―  Zhè zhāng zhuōzǐ shì mù de.  ―  This table is made of wood
  4. simple; plain; slow; emotionless; wooden
    木訥/木讷  ―  mùnè  ―  plain spoken, slow and inarticulate
  5. † coffin
    棺木  ―  guānmù  ―  coffin
    就木  ―  jiùmù  ―  to die (to enter one's coffin)
  6. (Mandarin, neologism, slang) Eye dialect spelling of 沒/没.
    有木有  ―  yǒumùyǒu  ―  innit, damn right
  7. numb
    麻木  ―  mámù  ―  numb, insensitive
    她手指凍木了。/她手指冻木了。  ―  Tā shǒuzhǐ dòng mù le.  ―  Her fingers were numb with cold.

Synonyms

  • (tree):
  • (wood):
  • (coffin):

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (木):

Other:

  • → Lü: ᦙᦴᧉ (muu²)

Japanese

Kanji

木

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
木
き
Grade: 1
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
樹

⟨ki2⟩ → */kɨ/ → /ki/

From Old Japanese 木 (ki2), from Proto-Japonic *kəy. Cognate with Proto-Ryukyuan *ke, whence Southern Amami-Oshima けぃー (kʰɨː), Okinawan きー (kiː), Kunigami きー (kʰiː), Miyako きー (kiː), Yaeyama きー (kiː) and Yonaguni きー (kʰiː).

Likely developed from fusion of older form 木 (ko, see below) + い (i, emphatic nominative particle), similar to the sound changes at work in 神 (kamu → kami, “Shinto deity”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

木(き) • (ki) 

  1. a tree or shrub
  2. wood, timber, lumber
  3. (graph theory, computer science) a tree (data structure)
  4. (theater, sumo, etc.) a clapper used to signal the opening or closing of a match or play
Idioms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
木
こ
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

⟨ko2⟩ → */kə/ → /ko/

From Old Japanese 木 (ko2), ultimately from Proto-Japonic *kə.

Likely the original form of ki above. Obsolete in modern Japanese, never found in isolation; only found in compounds and certain idioms.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ko̞]

Noun

木(こ) • (ko) 

  1. Combining form of 木 (き, ki): tree; wood
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
木
もく
Grade: 1
goon

From Middle Chinese 木 (MC muk̚). The 呉音 (goon, literally “Wu sound”) reading, so likely the original borrowing from Middle Chinese.

Compare modern Cantonese 木 (muk6).

Alternative forms

  • (wood grain): 杢

Pronunciation

Noun

木(もく) • (moku) 

  1. a tree
  2. Short for 木曜日 (mokuyōbi): Thursday
  3. wood grain
Derived terms

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
木
ぼく
Grade: 1
kan’on

From Middle Chinese 木 (MC muk̚). The 漢音 (kan'on, literally “Han sound”) reading, so likely a later borrowing from Middle Chinese.

Compare literary Min Nan 木 (bo̍k).

Pronunciation

Noun

木(ぼく) • (boku) 

  1. a tree; more specifically, a living tree
  2. the bent and gnarled trunk or roots of an old tree
  3. wood, lumber
  4. something made of wood
  5. in ancient China, a wooden musical instrument

Adjective

木(ぼく) • (boku) -na (adnominal 木(ぼく)な (boku na), adverbial 木(ぼく)に (boku ni))

  1. (derogatory) wooden, as of a person's character or behavior
  2. (derogatory) wooden, as of a person's mental abilities: blockheaded, stupid, dimwitted
Inflection

References

  1. Pellard, Thomas (2012), “日琉祖語の分岐年代”, in 琉球諸語と古代日本語に関する比較言語学的研究」ワークショップ‎, page 6
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 木 (MC muk̚).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448목〮 (Yale: mwók)
Middle Korean
TextEumhun
Gloss (hun)Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527나모 (Yale: nàmwò)목〮 (Yale: mwók)

Pronunciation

Hanja

Wikisource 木 (eumhun 나무 목 (namu mok))

  1. Hanja form? of 목 (“tree; wood; wooden”). [affix]
  2. Hanja form? of 목 (“Short for 목요일(木曜日) (mogyoil, “Thursday”).”).

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典.

Okinawan

Kanji

木

Readings

Etymology

/ki/ → /kiː/

From Proto-Ryukyuan *ke, from Proto-Japonic *kəy.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kʲiː]

Noun

木 (hiragana きー, rōmaji kī)

  1. a tree

References

    Old Japanese

    Etymology 1

    From Proto-Japonic *kəy. Compare the pronunciation of Middle Chinese 紀 (MC kɨX).

    Likely developed from fusion of older form 木 (ko2, see below) + い (i(2), emphatic nominative particle), similar to the sound changes at work in 神 (kamu → kami2, “Shinto deity”).[1]

    Noun

    木 (ki2) (kana き)

    1. a tree or shrub
    2. wood, timber, lumber
    Descendants
    • Japanese: 木 (ki)

    Etymology 2

    Ultimately from Proto-Japonic *kə. Compare the pronunciation of Middle Chinese 許 (MC hɨʌX).

    Likely the original form of ⟨ki2⟩ above. Never found in isolation.[1]

    Noun

    木 (ko2) (kana こ)

    1. Combining form of キ乙 (ki2) above
    Derived terms
    Descendants
    • Japanese: 木 (ko)

    Etymology 3

    May ultimately be from Proto-Japonic *kəy. Analysis in the Nihon Shoki (720 CE) shows that this variation of ⟨ki2⟩ is not limited to Eastern dialects.

    Noun

    木 (ke2) (kana け)

    1. (regional, Northern Eastern Old Japanese, Southern Eastern Old Japanese) Same as キ乙 (ki2) above
      • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 20, poem 4375), text here
        麻都能氣乃奈美多流美礼波伊波妣等乃和例乎美於久流等多多理之母己呂
        matu no2 ke2 no2 nami1taru mi1reba ipabi1to2 no2 ware wo mi1okuru to2 tatari si moko2ro2
        Looking at the pine trees all in a row, they were just like the people from the household standing to see me off
    Derived terms
    • 眞木 (make2)
    • 御木 (Mi1ke2, a placename)

    References

    1. Pellard, Thomas (2012), “日琉祖語の分岐年代”, in 琉球諸語と古代日本語に関する比較言語学的研究」ワークショップ‎, page 6

    Vietnamese

    Han character

    木: Hán Việt readings: mộc (莫(mạc)卜(bốc)切(thiết))[1][2][3]
    木: Nôm readings: mọc[1][2][3][4][5], mốc[1][2][3][4][5], mộc[1][2][3][5], móc[1][3][4][5], mục[3][4][5], chúc[2]

    1. chữ Hán form of mộc (“tree; wood”).

    Compounds

    References

    1. Nguyễn (2014).
    2. Nguyễn et al. (2009).
    3. Trần (2004).
    4. Hồ (1976).
    5. Taberd & Pigneau de Béhaine (1838).
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