木

木 (radical 75, 木+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 木 (D), four-corner 4090₀, composition ⿻十𠆢)

1. Kangxi radical #75, ⽊.

• Index:Chinese radical/木
• 休, 㕲, 𡉿, 𫹎, 𪫟, 𢪮, 沐, 𦙣, 炑, 牀, 𭷉, 𤘬, 狇, 𬍓, 𤱃, 𥄢, 𥝰, 𭩼, 䊾, 蚞, 𮗼, 䝗, 𮠛, 鈢, 𩵦(𫠏), 禾, 床, 耒, 罙, 穼, 集, 雧

• 𛀧 (Hentaigana)

Wikidata

• KangXi: page 509, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14415
• Dae Jaweon: page 888, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1149, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6728

Historical forms of the character 木
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – a tree: branches on top, roots on the bottom (more visible in earlier forms).

No known cognate exists. It can perhaps be compared with Proto-Karen *məŋᴮ (“trunk (of a tree); firewood”) (Starostin) or Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔmuk (“stump (of a tree)”) (Schuessler, 2007).

The common Sino-Tibetan root for “tree; wood” is *siŋ ~ sik, represented by 薪 (OC *siŋ, “firewood”).

木

1. ^† tree

   Synonyms: 樹／树 (shù)

   樹木 / 树木  ―  shùmù  ―  tree

2. wood; timber

   木頭 / 木头  ―  mùtou  ―  log

3. wooden
   • 這張桌子是木的。 / 这张桌子是木的。  ―  Zhè zhāng zhuōzǐ shì mù de.  ―  This table is made of wood
4. simple; plain; slow; emotionless
   • 木訥 / 木讷  ―  mùnè  ―  plain spoken, slow and inarticulate
5. ^† coffin
   • 棺木  ―  guānmù  ―  coffin
   • 就木  ―  jiùmù  ―  to die (to enter one's coffin)
6. (Mandarin, neologism, slang) Eye dialect spelling of 沒.

   有木有  ―  yǒumùyǒu  ―  innit, damn right

7. numb

   麻木  ―  mámù  ―  numb, insensitive

   • 她手指凍木了。 / 她手指冻木了。  ―  Tā shǒuzhǐ dòng mù le.  ―  Her fingers were numb with cold.

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Go-on: もく (moku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ぼく (boku, Jōyō)
• Kun: き (ki, 木, Jōyō); け (ke, 木); こ (ko, 木, Jōyō, uncommon)
• Nanori: ぐ (gu); しげ (shige); も (mo); もと (moto)

/ki₂/: [kɨ] > [ki]

From Old Japanese 木 (ki₂) (cf. phonetic Man'yōgana form 紀 (MC kɨ^X)), from Proto-Japonic *kəy. Cognate with Proto-Ryukyuan *ke, whence Southern Amami-Oshima けぃー (kʰɨː), Okinawan きー (kiː), Kunigami きー (kʰiː), Miyako きー (kiː), Yaeyama きー (kiː) and Yonaguni きー (kʰiː). Likely developed from fusion of older form *kə + い (i, emphatic nominative particle), similar to the sound changes at work in 神 in the shift from kamu to kami.[1]

Now the modern Japanese word.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) き​ [kíꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [kʲi]
• (Osaka) きい (Heiban)

木 (hiragana き, rōmaji ki)

1. a tree; a shrub
2. wood, timber, lumber
3. (graph theory, computer science) a tree (data structure)

• 猿 (さる)も木 (き)から落 (お)ちる (saru mo ki kara ochiru): “even monkeys fall from trees”, i.e. even experts make mistakes

From Old Japanese 木 (ke₂) (cf. phonetic Man'yōgana form 氣 (MC kʰɨi^H, hɨi^H)). Possibly an intermediate form. Obsolete in modern Japanese, and never found in isolation; remains in certain place names. Even in ancient times, its use was apparently limited to eastern dialects.[3]

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ke̞]

木 (hiragana け, rōmaji ke)

1. a tree

   麻都能氣乃 奈美多流美礼波 伊波妣等乃 和例乎美於久流等 多々理之母己呂[4]

   松の木の 並みたる見れば 家人の 我れを見送ると 立たりしもころ
   まつのけの なみたるみれば いはびとの われをみおくると たたりしもころ
   Matsu no ke no / namitaru mireba / iwabito no / ware o miokuru to / tatari shi mokoro

   Looking at the pine trees all in a row, they were just like the people from the household standing to see me off

/ko₂/: [kə] > [ko̞]

From Old Japanese 木 (ko₂) (cf. phonetic Man'yōgana form 許 (MC hɨʌ^X)), from Proto-Japonic *kə. Likely the original form. Obsolete in modern Japanese, and never found in isolation; only found in compounds and certain idioms.[1]

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ko̞]

木 (hiragana こ, rōmaji ko)

1. a tree

From Middle Chinese 木 (muwk). The goon reading, so likely the original borrowing. Compare modern Cantonese 木 (muk6).

• On’yomi: Goon
  • (Tokyo) も​く [móꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [mo̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

木 (hiragana もく, rōmaji moku)

1. a tree
2. short for 木曜日 (​Mokuyōbi): Thursday

   When written in romaji, often capitalized as ​Moku.

3. wood grain

   Often written 杢.

From Middle Chinese 木 (mù). The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing. Compare literary Min Nan 木 (bo̍k).

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) ぼく [bòkú] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [bo̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

木 (-na inflection, hiragana ぼく, rōmaji boku)

1. (derogatory) wooden, as of a person's character or behavior
2. (derogatory) wooden, as of a person's mental abilities: blockheaded, stupid, dimwitted

木 (hiragana ぼく, rōmaji boku)

1. a tree; more specifically, a living tree
2. the bent and gnarled trunk or roots of an old tree
3. wood, lumber
4. something made of wood
5. in ancient China, a wooden musical instrument

木 (eumhun 나무 목 (namu mok))

1. (나무 목, namu-): wood
2. (as an abbreviation) Thursday

木: Hán Việt readings: mộc (莫(mạc)卜(bốc)切(thiết))[1][2][3]
木: Nôm readings: mọc[1][2][3][4][5], mốc[1][2][3][4][5], mộc[1][2][3][5], móc[1][3][4][5], mục[3][4][5], chúc[2]

1. Hán tự form of mộc (“tree; wood”).