wood; wooden


Similar looking characters : (grain) wèi (not yet)
Made with 4 strokes.
A picture of a tree rooted in the ground.
Ancient small seal form Small seal

Sounds same

(eye)

Different tone

(mother) ; (area) ; (mother)

Radical

Index 75 used in: bǎn (board) ; bēi (cup) ; běn (root) ; cài (vegetable) ; cǎi (color) ; chá (tea) ; chái (firewood) ; chuáng (bed) ; gān (pole) ; guǒ (fruit) ; (machine) ; jìn (to prohibit) ; jìn (to prohibit) ; (tangerine) ; (of plants) ; lái (arrive) ; (plum) ; (pear) ; lín (forest) ; lóu (multi-story building) ; (board game) ; qín (Qin) ; qīn (parent) ; róu (soft) ; shā (to kill) ; shù (tree) ; shù (method) ; song (Song) ; tiáo (strip) ; wèi (not yet) ; xián (to stay idle) ; xiāng (each other) ; xiào (school) ; (chair) ; zhí (to plant) ; zhī (branch) ; zhuō (table)

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Pronunciation

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stroke order for 木
Stroke order for character 木, kindly provided under Wikimedia creative commons license

Cities

佳木斯 Jiamusi, Heilongjiang
乌鲁木齐 Urumqi, Xinjiang
格尔木 Golmud, Qinghai

Proverbs

独木不成林,单弦不成音 dú mù bù chéng lín, dān xián bù chéng yīn Many things require people to work together to achieve an end
独木难支 dú mù nán zhī It often requires more than one person to resolve problems
斧快不怕木柴硬 fǔ kuài bú pà mù chái yìng A talented person is not afraid of a difficult task
木已成舟 mù yǐ chéng zhōu Too late to change anything
十年树木,百年树人 shí nián shù mù, bǎi nián shù rén Studying may be slow and arduous but will be worth it
无源之水,无本之木 wú yuán zhī shuǐ, wú běn zhī mù Something without a proper foundation. Not properly planned

Also

木兰花 mù lán huā magnolia
枫木 fēng mù maple