もく

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of もく – see the following entries.

【木】1	[noun] a tree [noun] Short for 木曜日 (mokuyōbi): Thursday [noun] wood grain

【目】1	[noun] (taxonomy) an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger than a family [noun] a playing piece in a board game, such as a stone in the game of go [noun] a point in the game of go

(This term, もく, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as もく, see Category:Japanese kanji read as もく.)

(The following entry is uncreated: 黙.)

Reversal of くも (kumo, “cloud”), from the way cigarette smoke looks like clouds.

もく • (moku)

Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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