草木

Chinese
 
grass; straw; draft (of a document)
grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty
 tree; wood
trad. (草木) 草 木
simp. #(草木) 草 木

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 草 木
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 豪 (89) 屋 (3)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 采老切 莫卜切
Baxter tshawX muwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sʰɑuX/ /muk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sʰɑuX/ /muk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sʰɑuX/ /muk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sʰawX/ /məwk̚/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sʰɑuX/ /muk̚/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sʰɑuX/ /muk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sʰɑuX/ /muk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cǎo mù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 cou2 muk6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 草 木
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cǎo mù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tshawX › ‹ muwk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[tsʰ]ˁuʔ/ /*C.mˁok/
English grass, plants tree, wood

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 草 木
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 16547 9327
Phonetic
component		 早 木
Rime
group		 幽 屋
Rime
subdivision		 1 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 草 木
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰuːʔ/ /*moːɡ/
Notes 說文作艸

Noun

草木

  1. vegetation; plants; greenery; flora

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • 人非草木，誰能無情／人非草木，谁能无情
  • 玉在山而草木潤／玉在山而草木润
  • 草木樨 (cǎomùxī)
  • 草木灰 (cǎomùhuī)
  • 草木皆兵 (cǎomùjiēbīng)
  • 草木知威
  • 草木驚心／草木惊心

Descendants
Sino-Xenic (草木):

Japanese
Kanji in this term
草 木
くさ
Grade: 1		 き
Grade: 1
kun’yomi
Kanji in this term
草 木
そう
Grade: 1		 もく
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) くさ​き [kùsáꜜkì] (Nakadaka – [2])[1]
  • IPA(key): [kɯ̟̊ᵝsa̠kʲi]

Noun

草(くさ)木(き) or 草(そう)木(もく) • (kusaki or sōmoku) 

  1. vegetation; plants

References
  1. 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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