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木

Mandarin · pinyin mù#

(bound form) tree
(bound form) wood
unresponsive; numb; wooden

Mandarin · pinyin Mù#

surname Mu

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木: mù · tree; wood, lumber; wooden

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4 · mu4

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muk6

Cantonese word readings for 木. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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tree; woody plant
wood; timber (Classifier: 條／条 c; 塊／块 c; 嚿 c; 轆／辘 c)
wooden
wood, one of the five elements of Wu Xing (五行 (-))
wood, one of the five elements of Wu Xing (五行 (-)) — (Classical) short for 木曜日 (mùyàorì): Thursday
(literary or in compounds) coffin
simple; plain; slow; emotionless; wooden
numb
a surname
(Mandarin, neologism, slang) eye dialect spelling of 沒 /没

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