Radical 75

木
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木 (U+6728) "tree"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	mù
Bopomofo:	ㄇㄨˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	muh
Wade–Giles:	mu4
Cantonese Yale:	muhk
Jyutping:	muk6
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	bo̍k
Japanese Kana:	モク moku / ボク boku (on'yomi) き ki (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	목 mok
Names
Chinese name(s):	(Left) 木字旁 mùzìpáng (Bottom) 木字底 mùzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):	木偏 kihen
Hangul:	나무 namu
Stroke order animation

Radical 75 or radical tree (木部), meaning 'tree', is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 1,369 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

木 is also the 64th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with its alternative form 朩 being its associated indexing component.

In the Chinese Wu Xing ("Five Phases"), 木 represents the element Wood.

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  Oracle bone script character
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  Bronze script character
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

As an isolated character it is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It is a first grade kanji.^[1] It is present in the name of Japan (日本, Nippon) meaning "Origin of the Sun".^[2]

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese Calligraphy: From Pictograph to Ideogram: The History of 214 Essential Chinese/Japanese Characters. Calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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