木葉

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Chinese

tree; wood leaf; page
trad. (木葉)
simp. (木叶)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Initial () (4) (36)
Final () (3) (155)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter muwk yep
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/muk̚/ /jiᴇp̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/muk̚/ /jiɛp̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/muk̚/ /jæp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/məwk̚/ /jiap̚/
Li
Rong
/muk̚/ /iɛp̚/
Wang
Li
/muk̚/ /jĭɛp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/muk̚/ /i̯ɛp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
muk6 jip6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ muwk › ‹ yep ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.mˁok/ /*lp/
English tree, wood leaf

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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
Reading # 1/1 2/2
No. 9327 11561
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*moːɡ/ /*leb/

Noun

木葉

  1. (literary or dialectal, poetic) leaf of a tree

Synonyms