木訥

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See also: 木讷

Chinese

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

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (4) (8)
Final () (3) (56)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division () I I
Fanqie
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/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/muk̚/ /nuət̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
muk6 neot6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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. * 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 1/1
No. 9327 9404
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*moːɡ/ /*nuːd/

Adjective

木訥

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