木

Translingual

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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

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Radical 75 木

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

• Appendix:Chinese radical/木
• 休, 㕲, 𡉿, 𡯐, 𫹎, 𪫟, 𢪮, 沐, 狇, 𫐠, 炑, 牀, 𭷉, 𤘬, 𬍓, 𦙣, 𠣛, 𬎳, 𤱃, 𤴷, 𪽻, 𥄢, 𪿈, 𥝰, 𠚐, 䊾, 𦐔, 蚞, 𮗼, 䝗, 𮠛, 鈢, 𩵦(𫠏)
• 禾, 米, 𠫡, 呆, 㚓, 宋, 𡭢, 𡵬, 床, 㦿, 𬇏, 𠕖, 采, 𦊋, 罙, 䂞, 穼, 䍒, 𬺜, 𦊧, 臬, 𠡷, 㕖, 集, 雬, 𡩎, 渠, 琹, 喿, 㮡, 髤, 䲷, 䴢, 燊, 築, 蘃, 蘖, 雧, 䯂
• 䢶, 相, 𡉣, 𪥄, 𢌶, 𢗦, 𤆰, 𤯃, 𦕂, 𧉓, 𧴿, 螙, 凩, 閑(闲), 困, 耒, 來, 𣸑, 𠎀, 𠍇, 𤨪, 𤚦, 鬱

Descendants

• Japanese: 𛀧 (Hentaigana)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: 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

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

Definitions

木

1. tree; woody plant

   Synonym: 樹／树 (shù)

   樹木／树木  ―  shùmù  ―  tree

   灌木  ―  guànmù  ―  shrub

   木芍藥／木芍药  ―  mùsháoyào  ―  tree peony

   • 以若所為求若所欲，猶緣木而求魚也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     以若所为求若所欲，犹缘木而求鱼也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Yǐ ruò suǒ wéi qiú ruò suǒ yù, yóu yuán mù ér qiú yú yě.

     But doing what you do to seek for what you desire is like climbing a tree to seek for fish.

2. wood; timber (Classifier: 條／条 c; 塊／块 c; 嚿 c; 轆／辘 c)

   木頭／木头  ―  mùtou  ―  log

3. wooden

   木屋  ―  mùwū  ―  wooden house

   這張桌子是木的。 [MSC, trad.]
   这张桌子是木的。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhè zhāng zhuōzi shì mù de.

   This table is made of wood.

4. (literary or in compounds) coffin

   就木  ―  jiùmù  ―  to die (literally, “to enter one's coffin”)

   • 原壤登木曰：「久矣予之不托於音也。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     原壤登木曰：「久矣予之不托于音也。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Rites, c. 4^th – 2^nd century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Yuán Rǎng dēng mù yuē: “Jiǔ yǐ yǔ zhī bù tuō yú yīn yě.”

     Yuan Rang got up on the coffin and said, "It is long since I sang to anything."

5. simple; plain; slow; emotionless; wooden

   木訥／木讷  ―  mùnè  ―  plain spoken, slow and inarticulate

6. 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.

7. a surname
8. (Mandarin, neologism, slang) Eye dialect spelling of 沒／没.

   有木有  ―  yǒumùyǒu  ―  innit, damn right

Synonyms

• (tree):

• (wood):

• (coffin):

Compounds