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Chinese
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grass; straw; draft (of a document) grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty |
tree; wood
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| trad. (草木)
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草
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木
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| simp. #(草木)
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草
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木
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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草
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木
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| Reading #
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1/2
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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cǎo
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mù
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ tshawX ›
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‹ muwk ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*ˁuʔ/
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/*C.mˁok/
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| English
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grass, plants
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tree, wood
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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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草
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木
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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16547
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9327
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Phonetic
component
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早
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木
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Rime
group
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幽
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屋
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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草
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木
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Old
Chinese
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/*sʰuːʔ/
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/*moːɡ/
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| Notes
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說文作艸
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Noun
草木
- vegetation; plants; greenery; flora
天地變化，草木蕃。
天地变化，草木蕃。 - From: I Ching, 11th – 8th century BCE
- Tiāndì biànhuà, cǎomù fán.
- Heaven and Earth change and transform, flora flourish
Synonyms
- 株 (zhū)
- 植 (zhí) (literary, or in compounds)
- 植株 (zhízhū)
- 植物 (zhíwù)
- 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)
Derived terms
Descendants
Japanese
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
草木 • (kusaki)
- vegetation; plants
See also
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
草木 • (sōmoku)
- vegetation; plants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN