木
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(bound form) tree; (bound form) wood; unresponsive; numb; wooden
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 木 itself
- Structure
- Overlaid 叠加
- Traditional
- 木
- Common rank
- #151
- Unicode
- U+6728
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Formation & memory
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Words with 木
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 木人石心 | lit. body made of wood, heart made of stone (idiom); fig. heartless | |
| 有木有 | (slang) come on, you can't deny it!; don't you think so?!; (melodramatic form of 有沒有|有没有[y… | |
| 平地木 | (TCM) Japanese ardisia (Ardisia japonica) | |
| 木里县 | see 木里藏族自治縣|木里藏族自治县[Mu4 li3 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] | |
| 木头 | wood; log (CL:塊|块[kuai4],根[gen1]); (fig.) blockhead; dolt | |
| 神木市 | Shenmu, a county-level city in Yulin City 榆林市[Yu2 lin2 Shi4], Shaanxi | |
| 格尔木市 | Golmud, a county-level city in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州[H… | |
| 木马 | wooden horse; rocking horse; vaulting horse (gymnastics); trojan horse (computing) | |
| 克里木 | Crimea; the Crimean peninsula | |
| 花木 | flowers and trees; plants; flora | |
| 南木林县 | Namling, a county in Shigatse City 日喀則市|日喀则市[Ri4 ka1 ze2 Shi4], Tibet | |
| 电木 | bakelite (early plastic); also written 膠木|胶木[jiao1 mu4] | |
| 木子美 | Mu Zimei, Chinese celebrity | |
| 高木 | Takagi (Japanese surname) | |
| 木下 | Kinoshita (Japanese surname) | |
| 尼木县 | Nyêmo, a county in Lhasa City 拉薩市|拉萨市[La1 sa4 Shi4], Tibet | |
| 格尔木 | see 格爾木市|格尔木市[Ge2 er3 mu4 Shi4] | |
| 木里 | see 木里藏族自治縣|木里藏族自治县[Mu4 li3 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] | |
| 木工 | woodwork; carpentry; woodworker; carpenter | |
| 木鱼花 | see 柴魚片|柴鱼片[chai2 yu2 pian4] |
Sound family
These characters use 木 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 木 sound part | tree; wood, lumber; wooden | |
| 沐 | to bathe, to cleanse, to shampoo, to wash |