土木

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Chinese

		earth; dust; rural earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian	tree; wood
simp. and trad. (土木)		土	木

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tǔmù

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄨˇ ㄇㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tou² muk⁶
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): thó͘-bo̍k

(Teochew, Peng'im): tou² bhag⁸

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tǔmù
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˇ ㄇㄨˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tǔmù
  - Wade–Giles: tʻu³-mu⁴
  - Yale: tǔ-mù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuumuh
  - Palladius: туму (tumu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: tou² muk⁶
  - Yale: tóu muhk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tou² muk⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: tou² mug⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯³⁵ mʊk̚²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thó͘-bo̍k
  - Tâi-lô: thóo-bo̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tofbok
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰɔ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bɔk̚²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚¹²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰɔ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: tou² bhag⁸
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thóu ba̍k
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou⁵²⁻³⁵ bak̚⁴/

Noun

土木

building; construction

Derived terms

土木工程 (tǔmù gōngchéng)
大興土木／大兴土木 (dàxīngtǔmù)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
土	木
ど Grade: 1	ぼく Grade: 1
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) どぼく (Atamadaka – )^[1]
IPA^(key):

Noun

土(ど)木(ぼく) • (doboku)

public works

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

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