木葉

Chinese

tree; wood leaf; page
trad. (木葉) 木 葉
simp. (木叶) 木 叶

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 木 葉
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Initial (聲) 明 (4) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 東 (3) 鹽 (155)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 莫卜切 與涉切
Baxter muwk yep
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/muk̚/ /jiᴇp̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/muk̚/ /jiɛp̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/muk̚/ /jæp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/məwk̚/ /jiap̚/
Li
Rong
/muk̚/ /iɛp̚/
Wang
Li
/muk̚/ /jĭɛp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/muk̚/ /i̯ɛp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mù yè
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
muk6 jip6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 木 葉
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
mù yè
Middle
Chinese
‹ muwk › ‹ yep ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.mˁok/ /*l[a]p/
English tree, wood leaf

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 木 葉
Reading # 1/1 2/2
No. 9327 11561
Phonetic
component
木 世
Rime
group
屋 盍
Rime
subdivision
0 2
Corresponding
MC rime
木 葉
Old
Chinese
/*moːɡ/ /*leb/

Noun

木葉

  1. (literary or dialectal, poetic) leaf of a tree

Synonyms

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