Japanese edit

Etymology 1 edit

For pronunciation and definitions of もく – see the following entries.
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[noun] a tree
[noun] Short for 木曜日 (mokuyōbi): Thursday
[noun] wood grain
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[noun] (taxonomy) an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger than a family
[noun] a playing piece in a board game, such as a stone in the game of go
[noun] a point in the game of go
(This term, もく, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as もく, see Category:Japanese kanji read as もく.)

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Etymology 2 edit

Reversal of くも (kumo, cloud), from the way cigarette smoke looks like clouds.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

もく (moku

  1. (slang) cigarette
Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN