草木

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Chinese

 
grass; straw; draft (of a document)
grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty
 tree; wood
trad. (草木) 草 木
simp. #(草木) 草 木

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 草 木
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 豪 (89) 屋 (3)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 采老切 莫卜切
Baxter tshawX muwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡sʰɑuX/ /muk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡sʰɑuX/ /muk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sʰɑuX/ /muk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡sʰawX/ /məwk̚/
Li
Rong 		/t͡sʰɑuX/ /muk̚/
Wang
Li 		/t͡sʰɑuX/ /muk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡sʰɑuX/ /muk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		cǎo mù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		cou2 muk6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 草 木
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		cǎo mù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tshawX › ‹ muwk ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁuʔ/ /*C.mˁok/
English grass, plants tree, wood

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 草 木
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 16547 9327
Phonetic
component 		早 木
Rime
group 		幽 屋
Rime
subdivision 		1 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		草 木
Old
Chinese 		/*sʰuːʔ/ /*moːɡ/
Notes 說文作艸

Noun

草木

  1. vegetation; plants; greenery; flora

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Descendants

Sino-Xenic (草木):

Japanese

Kanji in this term
草 木
くさ
Grade: 1 		き
Grade: 1
kun’yomi
Kanji in this term
草 木
そう
Grade: 1 		もく
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

草(くさ)木(き) or 草(そう)木(もく) • (kusaki or sōmoku) 

  1. vegetation; plants

Related terms

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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