木葉

Chinese

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mùyè

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˋ ㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): muk⁶ jip⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mùyè
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˋ ㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mùyè
    • Wade–Giles: mu⁴-yeh⁴
    • Yale: mù-yè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muhyeh
    • Palladius: муе (muje)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu⁵¹⁻⁵³ jɛ⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 暮夜 牧業／牧业 木業／木业 木葉／木叶

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: muk⁶ jip⁶
    • Yale: muhk yihp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: muk⁹ jip⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mug⁶ yib⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mʊk̚² jiːp̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: muwk yep

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

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.mˤok  l[a]p/

  (Zhengzhang): /*moːɡ  leb/

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

   • 嫋嫋兮秋風，洞庭波兮木葉下。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     袅袅兮秋风，洞庭波兮木叶下。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Verses of Chu, 4^th century BCE – 2^nd century CE

     Niǎoniǎo xī qiūfēng, dòngtíng bō xī mùyè xià. [Pinyin]

     The autumn's wind whirls and twirls; on Dongting's waves fall the trees' leaves.

   • (Can we date this quote?), “喽喽哩”, 黄远航, editor‎^[1]performed by 陈晓妍:

     三片木叶是遮盖了 [Danzhou dialect, simp.]
     三片木葉是遮蓋了 [Danzhou dialect, trad.]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 樹葉 (“leaf of a tree”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		樹葉, 木葉
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		樹葉
Mandarin	Beijing	樹葉兒
	Taiwan	樹葉
	Tianjin	樹葉兒
	Tangshan	樹葉兒
	Cangzhou	樹葉兒
	Baoding	樹葉兒
	Shijiazhuang	樹葉兒
	Chifeng	樹葉兒
	Hulunbuir (Hailar)	樹葉兒
	Harbin	樹葉兒, 樹葉子
	Shenyang	樹葉兒
	Yantai (Muping)	樹葉兒, 樹葉子
	Qingdao	樹葉兒
	Jinan	樹葉兒, 樹葉子
	Luoyang	樹葉兒
	Zhengzhou	樹葉兒
	Xi'an	樹葉子
	Yinchuan	樹葉子
	Lanzhou	樹葉兒
	Xining	樹葉葉, 樹葉子
	Ürümqi	樹葉子
	Wuhan	樹葉子, 葉子
	Chengdu	樹子葉葉, 樹葉, 樹葉子
	Chongqing	樹葉子
	Guiyang	樹葉子, 葉子
	Kunming	樹葉, 樹葉兒
	Guilin	樹葉
	Liuzhou	樹葉
	Xuzhou	樹葉子, 樹葉兒
	Yangzhou	樹葉子
	Nanjing	樹葉兒, 樹葉子
	Hefei	樹葉子
	Nantong	樹葉子
	Singapore	樹葉
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	樹葉子, 樹葉兒
Cantonese	Guangzhou	樹葉
	Hong Kong	樹葉
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	樹葉
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	樹葉
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	樹葉
	Taishan	樹葉
	Dongguan	樹葉
	Yangjiang	樹葉, 木葉
	Danzhou	木葉
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	樹葉
Gan	Nanchang	樹葉子
	Lichuan	樹葉
	Pingxiang	樹葉子
Hakka	Meixian	樹葉
	Dabu (Xihe)	樹葉
	Luhe	樹葉
	Yudu	樹葉
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	樹葉仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	樹葉仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	樹葉仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	樹葉
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	樹葉仔
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	樹葉
	Hong Kong	樹葉
	Sabah (Longchuan)	樹葉
	Kuala Lumpur (Dabu)	樹葉
	Senai (Huiyang)	樹葉
	Sungai Tapang, Batu Kawa (Hepo)	樹葉
	Singkawang	樹葉
Huizhou	Jixi	樹葉
Jin	Taiyuan	樹葉子
	Pingyao	樹葉子
	Xinzhou	樹葉子
	Linhe	樹葉子
	Jining	樹葉兒
	Hohhot	樹葉兒
	Zhangjiakou	樹葉兒
	Handan	樹葉兒
Northern Min	Jian'ou	樹箬
	Songxi	樹箬
	Zhenghe	樹箬
	Jianyang	樹箬
	Wuyishan	樹箬
	Pucheng (Shibei)	樹箬
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	樹箬
	Changle	樹箬
	Fuqing	樹箬
	Yongtai	樹箬
	Gutian	樹箬
	Fu'an	樹箬
	Ningde	樹箬
	Shouning	柴樹箬
	Zhouning	柴樹箬
	Fuding	柴樹箬
	Matsu	樹箬
Southern Min	Xiamen	樹箬
	Quanzhou	樹箬
	Jinjiang	樹箬
	Zhangzhou	樹箬
	Zhao'an	樹箬
	Tainan	樹箬
	Penang (Hokkien)	樹箬
	Singapore (Hokkien)	樹箬
	Manila (Hokkien)	樹箬
	Pingnan (Shangdu)	樹箬
	Chaozhou	樹箬
	Bangkok (Teochew)	樹箬
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	樹箬
	Haikou	樹箬
Puxian Min	Putian	樹箬
Central Min	Yong'an	樹箬
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	樹箬
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	樹葉
Wu	Shanghai	樹葉, 樹葉子
	Shanghai (Chongming)	樹葉
	Suzhou	樹葉
	Danyang	樹葉子
	Hangzhou	樹葉兒
	Ningbo	樹葉爿
	Wenzhou	樹葉
	Jinhua	樹葉
Xiang	Changsha	樹葉子
	Loudi	樹葉子