木
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木 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 木 (D), four-corner 40900, composition ⿻十𠆢)
Historical forms of the character 木 | ||||
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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). See also 本, 未, 末 and the top component of 尞 in his original version.
Unrelated to 耒, in which it represents a bifurcated plow, and 茶, in which it represents the door of a hut. Unrelated to 米 since it is the pictogram of six rice kernels. Also unrelated to 保, in which it represents the body of a newborn baby.
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
Variety | Location | Words |
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Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 木頭 | |
Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 木頭 |
Taiwan | 木頭 | |
Singapore | 木頭 | |
Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 木頭 |
Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 木頭 |
Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 木頭 |
Wuhan | 木頭 | |
Guilin | 木頭 | |
Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 木頭 |
Hefei | 木頭 | |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | 木 |
Hong Kong | 木 | |
Yangjiang | 木頭 | |
Gan | Nanchang | 木頭 |
Hakka | Meixian | 樹料, 木頭 |
Jin | Taiyuan | 木頭 |
Northern Min | Jian'ou | 柴 |
Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 柴 |
Southern Min | Xiamen | 柴 |
Taipei (Wanhua) | 柴 | |
Kaohsiung | 柴 | |
Yilan | 柴 | |
Changhua (Lukang) | 柴 | |
Taichung | 柴 | |
Taichung (Wuqi) | 柴 | |
Tainan | 柴 | |
Taitung | 柴 | |
Hsinchu | 柴 | |
Penghu (Magong) | 柴 | |
Manila (Hokkien) | 柴 | |
Chaozhou | 柴 | |
Wu | Suzhou | 木頭 |
Wenzhou | 木頭, 樹 log | |
Xiang | Changsha | 木頭 |
Shuangfeng | 樹 |
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