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Chinese
Pronunciation
Rime
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Character
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植
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植
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物
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Reading #
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1/2
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2/2
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1/1
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Initial (聲)
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澄 (11)
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常 (25)
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明 (4)
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Final (韻)
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之 (19)
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職 (134)
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物 (60)
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Tone (調)
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Departing (H)
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Checked (Ø)
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Checked (Ø)
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Openness (開合)
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Open
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Open
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Closed
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Division (等)
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III
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III
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III
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Fanqie
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直吏切
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常職切
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文弗切
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Baxter
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driH
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dzyik
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mjut
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Reconstructions
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Zhengzhang Shangfang
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/ɖɨH/
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/d͡ʑɨk̚/
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/mɨut̚/
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Pan Wuyun
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/ɖɨH/
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/d͡ʑɨk̚/
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/miut̚/
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Shao Rongfen
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/ȡieH/
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/d͡ʑiek̚/
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/miuət̚/
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Edwin Pulleyblank
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/ɖɨH/
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/d͡ʑik̚/
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/mut̚/
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Li Rong
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/ȡiəH/
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/ʑiək̚/
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/miuət̚/
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Wang Li
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/ȡĭəH/
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/ʑĭək̚/
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/mĭuət̚/
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Bernard Karlgren
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/ȡʱiH/
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/ʑi̯ək̚/
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/mi̯uət̚/
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Expected Mandarin Reflex
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zhì
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shí
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wù
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Expected Cantonese Reflex
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zi6
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sik6
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mat6
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Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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植
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植
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植
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物
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Reading #
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1/3
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2/3
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3/3
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1/1
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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zhí
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zhí
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zhí
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wù
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Middle Chinese
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‹ driH ›
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‹ driH ›
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‹ dzyik ›
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‹ mjut ›
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Old Chinese
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/*N-t<r>ək-s/
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/*m-t<r>ək-s/
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/*m-tək/
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/*C.mut/
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English
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grow, flourish
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to plant, set upright
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to plant; plants
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thing
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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.
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Zhengzhang system (2003)
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Character
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植
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植
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物
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Reading #
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1/2
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2/2
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1/1
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No.
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17263
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17273
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13218
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Phonetic component
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直
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直
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勿
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Rime group
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代
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職
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物
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Rime subdivision
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0
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0
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1
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Corresponding MC rime
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值
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寔
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物
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Old Chinese
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/*dɯɡs/
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/*djɯɡ/
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/*mɯd/
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Noun
植物
- (botany) plant; vegetation; flora (Classifier: 棵 m; 樖 c)
- 觀賞植物/观赏植物 ― guānshǎng zhíwù ― ornamental plant
- 植物材料 ― zhíwù cáiliào ― plant material
- 植物育種者權利/植物育种者权利 ― zhíwù yùzhǒngzhě quánlì ― plant breeder’s rights
Synonyms
- 株 (zhū)
- 植 (zhí) (literary, or in compounds)
- 植株 (zhízhū)
- 植被 (zhíbèi)
- 歲物/岁物 (suìwù) (literary)
- 綠色植物/绿色植物 (lǜsè zhíwù)
- 花卉 (huāhuì)
- 花草 (huācǎo)
- 草木 (cǎomù)
Hypernyms
Coordinate terms
- 動物/动物 (dòngwù)
- 真菌 (zhēnjūn)
- 原生生物 (yuánshēng shēngwù)
Derived terms
Descendants
Adjective
植物
- (medicine, attributive) vegetative
- 植物狀態/植物状态 ― zhíwù zhuàngtài ― vegetative state
Japanese
Etymology 1
From Middle Chinese 植物 (MC dzyik mjut).
Pronunciation
Noun
植物 • (shokubutsu)
- a plant; vegetation
Coordinate terms
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 維管束植物 (ikansoku shokubutsu, “vascular plant”)
- 黄金色植物 (ōgonshoku shokubutsu, “Chrysophyta”)
- 黄色植物 (ōshoku shokubutsu, “Chrysophyta”)
- 植物遺体 (shokubutsu itai, “plant remains, plant fossil”)
- 植物ウイルス (shokubutsu uirusu, “plant virus”)
- 植物エストロゲン (shokubutsu esutorogen, “phytoestrogen”)
- 植物園 (shokubutsuen, “botanical garden”)
- 植物界 (shokubutsukai, “Plantae”)
- 植物学 (shokubutsugaku, “botany”)
- 植物極 (shokubutsukyoku, “vegetal pole”)
- 植物区系 (shokubutsu kukei, “floristic region”)
- 植物群落 (shokubutsu gunraku, “plant community”)
- 植物工場 (shokubutsu kōjō, “plant factory”)
- 植物社会学 (shokubutsu shakaigaku, “phytosociology”)
- 植物状態 (shokubutsu jōtai, “persistent vegitative state”)
- 植物ステロール (shokubutsusuterōru, “phytosterol”)
- 植物性 (shokubutsusei, “something plant-based, plant-derived, of plant origin”)
- 植物生理学 (shokubutsu seirigaku, “phytophysiology”)
- 植物繊維 (shokubutsu sen'i, “plant fibers”)
- 植物相 (shokubutsusō, “flora”)
- 植物象牙 (shokubutsu zōge, “vegetable ivory (ivory palm endosperm)”)
- 植物帯 (shokubutsutai, “life zone”)
- 植物地理学 (shokubutsu chirigaku, “phytogeography”)
- 植物肉 (shokubutsuniku, “plant-based meat”)
- 植物人間 (shokubutsu ningen, “person in a vegetative state”)
- 植物病理学 (shokubutsu byōrigaku, “phytopathology”)
- 植物プランクトン (shokubutsu purankuton, “phytoplankton”)
- 植物ホルモン (shokubutsu horumon, “plant hormony, phytohormone”)
- 植物油 (shokubutsuyu, “vegetable oil”)
- 植物油脂 (shokubutsu yushi, “vegetable fat”)
- 水生植物 (suisei shokubutsu, “aquatic plant”)
- 多肉植物 (taniku shokubutsu, “succulent plant”)
- 底生植物 (teisei shokubutsu, “phytobenthos”)
- 被子植物 (hishi shokubutsu, “angiosperm”)
- 裸子植物 (rashi shokubutsu, “gymnosperm”)
- 綠色植物 (ryokushoku shokubutsu, “Viridiplantae”)
Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 植物 – see the following entry.
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(This term, 植物, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
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References
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
Korean
Noun
植物 • (singmul) (hangeul 식물)
- hanja form? of 식물 (“plants, vegetation”)
Vietnamese
Noun
植物
- chữ Hán form of thực vật (“plants, vegetation”).