物

物 U+7269, 物
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7269
← 牨
[U+7268] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 牪 →
[U+726A]

Translingual
Stroke order

Han character

物 (radical 93, 牛+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹手心竹竹 (HQPHH), four-corner 27520, composition ⿰牜勿)

Derived characters
  • 𭈘, 𠡵, 惣, 𤊘, 𭱮, 鿯, 𫙦, 𭬲

References
  • KangXi: page 699, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19959
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1111, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1805, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7269

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 物

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 物
Shang Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (勿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
脗 *minʔ
吻 *mɯnʔ
刎 *mɯnʔ
伆 *mɯnʔ, *mɯd
勽 *buːs, *mɯnʔ
沕 *mrɯd, *mɯd
忽 *hmɯːd
昒 *hmɯːd, *mɯd
惚 *hmɯːd
匫 *hmɯːd
笏 *hmɯːd
曶 *hmɯːd
淴 *ʔmɯːd
物 *mɯd
勿 *mɯd
芴 *mɯd
岉 *mɯd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯd) : semantic 牛 + phonetic 勿 (OC *mɯd).

Pronunciation
Note:
  • mi̍h/mn̍gh - vernacular (“thing”);
  • mih - vernacular (limited, used in 物仔, 物代, 啥物, etc.);
  • bu̍t - literary.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 物
Mandarin Beijing /u⁵¹/
Harbin /u⁵³/
Tianjin /u⁵³/
Jinan /u²¹/
Qingdao /vu⁴²/
Zhengzhou /u²⁴/
Xi'an /vo²¹/
Xining /v̩⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /vu¹³/
Lanzhou /və¹³/
Ürümqi /vu²¹³/
Wuhan /u²¹³/
Chengdu /u³¹/
Guiyang /u²¹/
Kunming /u³¹/
Nanjing /uʔ⁵/
Hefei /uəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /vəʔ²/
Pingyao /uʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /vəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /vəʔ¹/
Suzhou /vəʔ³/
/məʔ³/
Hangzhou /vəʔ²/
Wenzhou /vai²¹³/
Hui Shexian /me²²/
Tunxi /mə¹¹/
/uə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /u²⁴/
Xiangtan /u²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /uɨʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /vut̚⁵/
Taoyuan /vut̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /mɐt̚²/
Nanning /mɐt̚²²/
Hong Kong /mɐt̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /but̚⁵/
/miʔ⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /uʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /u²⁴/
/o²⁴/ 新
Shantou (Min Nan) /mueʔ⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /vut̚³/
/mi³³/
Rime
Character 物
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 物 (60)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 文弗切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mɨut̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /miut̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /miuət̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mut̚/
Li
Rong		 /miuət̚/
Wang
Li		 /mĭuət̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mi̯uət̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wù
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 物
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mjut ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.mut/
English thing

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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 物
Reading # 1/1
No. 13218
Phonetic
component		 勿
Rime
group		 物
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 物
Old
Chinese		 /*mɯd/

Definitions

物

  1. thing, matter
    物體 / 物体  ―  wùtǐ  ―  object
    動物 / 动物  ―  dòngwù  ―  animal [lit. moving thing]
  2. all of the outside world, excluding oneself
  3. substance, content
  4. Short for 物理 (wùlǐ, “physics”).
  5. to choose, to select
  6. to seek, to look for
    物色  ―  wùsè  ―  to seek out, to scout out
  7. (Teochew) to do
    家己物 [Teochew]  ―  ga1 gi7 muêh8 [Peng'im]  ―  do it by oneself
  8. † Alternative form of 勿 (wù).
  9. (Min Nan) Alternative form of 乜 (miē, “what”).

Compounds
Derived terms from 物

Japanese

Kanji
物

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds
Compounds

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
物
もの
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

⟨mo2no2⟩ → ⟨mono2⟩ → /mono/

From Old Japanese. Attested in the Kojiki. Ultimately from Proto-Japonic *mənə.

Pronunciation

Noun

物 (hiragana もの, rōmaji mono)

  1. thing (concrete, tangible)
    1. (law) a corporeal object
      • Japanese Civil Code, Article 85
        この法律 (ほうりつ)において「物 (もの)」とは、有体物 (ゆうたいぶつ)をいう。
        Kono hōritsu ni oite “mono” to wa, yūtaibutsu o iu.
        The term "Things" as used in this Code shall mean tangible thing.
See also
  • 事 (koto, “thing”, abstract, intangible)

Suffix

物 (hiragana もの, rōmaji -mono)

  1. story, genre (type of story)
    探偵 (たんてい)もののドラマ
    tantei-mono no dorama
    detective drama
    冒険 (ぼうけん)ものです。
    Bōken-mono desu.
    It is an adventure story.

Etymology 2

/mono/ → /mon/

Shift from mono above.

Pronunciation

Noun

物 (hiragana もん, rōmaji mon)

  1. (informal) thing

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

物 (eumhun 물건 물 (mulgeon mul))

  1. Hanja form? of 물 (“thing, stuff”).

Kunigami

Kanji

物

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /munuː/

Noun

物 (hiragana むぬー, romaji munū)

  1. thing

Miyako

Kanji

物

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /munu/

Noun

物 (hiragana むぬ, romaji munu)

  1. thing

Okinawan

Kanji

物

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /munu/
  • IPA(key): /muŋ/

Noun

物 (hiragana むぬ, romaji munu, hiragana むん, romaji mun)

  1. thing

Vietnamese

Han character

物 (vật)

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Yaeyama

Kanji

物

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /munu/

Noun

物 (hiragana むぬ, romaji munu)

  1. thing

Yonaguni

Kanji

物

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /munu/

Noun

物 (hiragana むぬ, romaji munu)

  1. thing
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