木: tree; wood

 

木 mù

noun | radical 75
: tree; wood, lumber
: coffin
: simple; numb
: one of the eight ancient musical instruments 八音 ba1yin made of eight different materials (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹)

Kun Reading

き ki

noun
: tree; wood; timber

 Usage:

木頭[头] mu4tou: blockhead

木偶 mu4ou3: puppet [でく deku: wooden figure or doll; puppet]

木材 mu4cai2: wood; lumber; timber [もくざい mokuzai]

木刻 mu4ke4: woodcut

木匠 mu4jiang4: carpenter [大工 | だいく daiku]

木工 mu4gong1: woodwork; carpentry; woodworker; carpenter [もっこう mokkou]

木棉 mu4mian2: cotton [きわた kiwata]

木棉花 mu4 mian2 hua1: cotton

木瓜 mu4gua1: papaya

[もっこう mokkou OR もこう mokou OR もけ moke OR ぼっか bokka OR ぼけ boke: Japanese quince (Chaenomeles speciosa); flowering quince; family crest based on a japonica flower]

木莓 mu4mei2: raspberry [きいちご kiichigo]

木耳 mu4 er3: edible tree fungus [きくらげ kikurage]

木星 mu4xing1: Jupiter (planet) [もくせい mokusei]

木乃伊 mu4 nai3 yi1: (loanword) mummy (preserved corpse) [みいら miira]

樹[树]木 shu4mu4: trees & shrubs; arbor [じゅもく juumoku]

林木 lin2mu4: forest [りんぼく rinboku]

森林 sen1lin2: forest [しんりん shinrin]

麻木 ma2mu4: numb

灌木 guan4mu4: bush; shrub [かんぼく kanboku]

木曜日 mu3yao4ri4: Thursday (Ancient Chinese Astronomy) [もくようび mokuyoubi]

Japanese common word | expression | idiom
木刀 | ぼくとう: wooden sword (especially used in Kendo)

木鼠 | きねずみ kinezumi: squirrel

うどの大木 | うどのたいぼく udo no taiboku
: good for nothing (of people); derived from a large ‘udo’ plant being of no use (only the young, tender, plant can be eaten)

人木石に非ず | ひとぼくせきにあらず hito boku seki ni arazu
: Man is made of flesh and blood

猿も木から落ちる | さるもきからおちる saru mo ki kara ochiru
: even monkeys fall from trees; anyone can make a mistake; pride comes before a fall; even Homer sometimes nods

木漏れ日 | こもれび komorebi
: Sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees

taken from 11 untranslatable words

Chinese idiom
木人石心 mu4 ren2 shi2 xin1
: lit. body made of wood, heart made of stone: fig. heartless

獨[独]木不成林 du2 mu4 bu4 cheng2 lin2
: a lone tree does not make a forest: one cannot accomplish much on one’s own

人生一世，草木一春 ren2 sheng1 yi1 shi4 , cao3 mu4 yi1 chun1
: Man has but one life, grass but one spring: fig. the brevity of human existence

你走你的陽關道，我過我的獨木橋 [你走你的阳关道，我过我的独木桥] ni3 zou3 ni3 de5 yang2 guan1 dao4 , wo3 guo4 wo3 de5 du2 mu4 qiao2
: you hit the high road, I’ll cross the log bridge; you take the easy way, I’ll follow the hard path

十年樹[树]木，百年樹[树]人 shi2 nian2 shu4 mu4 , bai3 nian2 shu4 ren2
It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man. A good education program takes a long time to develop.

只見樹木不見森林 [只见树木不见森林] zhi3 jian4 shu4 mu4 bu4 jian4 sen1 lin2
unable to see the woods for the trees: fig. only able to see isolated details, and not the bigger picture