木屑

Chinese

		tree; wood	crumbs; filings; worth while
trad. (木屑)		木	屑
simp. #(木屑)		木	屑

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mùxiè

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˋ ㄒㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): muk⁶ sit³
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸moq-shiq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mùxiè
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˋ ㄒㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mùsiè
    • Wade–Giles: mu⁴-hsieh⁴
    • Yale: mù-syè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muhshieh
    • Palladius: мусе (muse)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: muk⁶ sit³
    • Yale: muhk sit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: muk⁹ sit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: mug⁶ xid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mʊk̚² siːt̚³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁸moq-shiq
    • MiniDict: moh^入 shih
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵moq-xiq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /moʔ¹¹ ɕiɪʔ²³/

Noun

木屑

1. wood shavings; sawdust

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 鋸末 (“sawdust”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		鋸末, 鋸屑, 木屑
Northeastern Mandarin	Harbin	鋸末子
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	鋸末
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	鋸末兒
	Xi'an	鋸末子
	Xining	鋸末
	Xuzhou	鋸末, 鋸末兒
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	鋸末渣
	Ürümqi	鋸末子
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	鋸末子, 鋸木麵
	Wuhan	鋸末子
	Guiyang	鋸木麵
	Liuzhou	木糠
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	鋸木屑兒
	Yangzhou	鋸屑, 鋸屑子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	木糠
	Hong Kong	木糠
Gan	Nanchang	鋸屑
	Lichuan	鋸屑
	Pingxiang	鋸屑
Hakka	Meixian	鋸屎, 木糠
	Nanxiong (Zhuji)	木屎
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	鋸屑, 鋸屎
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	鋸屑, 鋸屎
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	鋸屑, 鋸屎
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	鋸屑
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	鋸屑, 鋸屎
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	鋸屑, 鋸屎
Jin	Taiyuan	鋸末
	Xinzhou	鋸木麵子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	鋸屑
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	鋸糠
Southern Min	Xiamen	柴幼, 鋸屑麩, 鋸屑
	Quanzhou	鋸屑
	Zhangzhou	柴幼, 鋸屑麩
	Tainan	鋸屑麩, 柴屑 GT
	Manila (Hokkien)	柴屑
	Chaozhou	柴粕
	Shantou	鋸屑
	Jieyang	鋸屑
	Leizhou	鋸糠
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	木糠
Wu	Shanghai	木屑
	Shanghai (Chongming)	木屑
	Suzhou	木屑
	Danyang	木屑
	Ningbo	鋸屑
	Wenzhou	鋸末
	Jinhua	鋸末
Xiang	Changsha	鋸木屑, 鋸木灰
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
木	屑
き Grade: 1	くず Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Etymology 1

Noun

木(き)屑(くず) • (kikuzu) 

1. wood chips, wood shavings, sawdust

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
木	屑
こつ
Grade: 1	Jinmeiyō
jukujikun

木屑(こつ) • (kotsu) 

1. wood chips that accumulate in streams of water

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
木	屑
こけら
Grade: 1	Jinmeiyō
jukujikun

For pronunciation and definitions of 木屑 – see the following entry.

【杮こけら】H [noun] wood chips Alternative spelling 𣏕

(This term, 木屑, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)