Wiktionary

物

物 U+7269, 物
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7269
← 牨
[U+7268] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 牪 →
[U+726A]

Translingual edit

Stroke order
 
Stroke order
 

Han character edit

物 (Kangxi radical 93, 牛+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹手心竹竹 (HQPHH), four-corner 27520, composition ⿰牜勿)

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 699, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19959
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1111, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1805, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7269

Chinese edit

simp. and trad.
 物

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character 物
Shang Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
       
Characters in the same phonetic series (勿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
脗 *minʔ
吻 *mɯnʔ
刎 *mɯnʔ
伆 *mɯnʔ, *mɯd
勽 *buːs, *mɯnʔ
沕 *mrɯd, *mɯd
忽 *hmɯːd
昒 *hmɯːd, *mɯd
惚 *hmɯːd
匫 *hmɯːd
笏 *hmɯːd
曶 *hmɯːd
淴 *ʔmɯːd
物 *mɯd
勿 *mɯd
芴 *mɯd
岉 *mɯd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mɯd) : semantic 牛 + phonetic 勿 (OC *mɯd).

Etymology edit

Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(m/b)rəw (“grain; seed; lineage”) (STEDT), whence Tibetan འབྲུ ('bru, “seed; grain”), Jingpho amyu (ə myú, “kind; sort”), Burmese မျိုး (myui:, “seed”).

Pronunciation edit

Note:
  • mi̍h/mn̍gh - vernacular (“thing”);
  • mih - vernacular (limited, used in 物仔, 物代, 啥物, etc.);
  • bu̍t - literary.
Note:
  • 5veq - literary;
  • 5meq - vernacular, used in 物事.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 物
Mandarin Beijing /u⁵¹/
Harbin /u⁵³/
Tianjin /u⁵³/
Jinan /u²¹/
Qingdao /vu⁴²/
Zhengzhou /u²⁴/
Xi'an /vo²¹/
Xining /v̩⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /vu¹³/
Lanzhou /və¹³/
Ürümqi /vu²¹³/
Wuhan /u²¹³/
Chengdu /u³¹/
Guiyang /u²¹/
Kunming /u³¹/
Nanjing /uʔ⁵/
Hefei /uəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /vəʔ²/
Pingyao /uʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /vəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /vəʔ¹/
/məʔ¹/
Suzhou /vəʔ³/
/məʔ³/
Hangzhou /vəʔ²/
Wenzhou /vai²¹³/
Hui Shexian /me²²/
Tunxi /mə¹¹/
/uə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /u²⁴/
Xiangtan /u²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /uɨʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /vut̚⁵/
Taoyuan /vut̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /mɐt̚²/
Nanning /mɐt̚²²/
Hong Kong /mɐt̚²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /but̚⁵/
/miʔ⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /uʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /u²⁴/
/o²⁴/ 新
Shantou (Teochew) /mueʔ⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /vut̚³/
/mi³³/
Rime
Character 物
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 文 (60)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 文弗切
Baxter mjut
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/mɨut̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/miut̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/miuət̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/mut̚/
Li
Rong 		/miuət̚/
Wang
Li 		/mĭuət̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/mi̯uət̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		wù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mat6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 物
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		wù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mjut ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C.mut/
English thing

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 物
Reading # 1/1
No. 13218
Phonetic
component 		勿
Rime
group 		物
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		物
Old
Chinese 		/*mɯd/

Definitions edit

物

  1. thing, matter
    物體／物体  ―  wùtǐ  ―  object
    動物／动物  ―  dòngwù  ―  animal [lit. moving thing]
  2. all of the outside world, excluding oneself
  3. substance, content
  4. Short for 物理 (wùlǐ, “physics”).
  5. to choose, to select
  6. to seek, to look for
    物色  ―  wùsè  ―  to seek out, to scout out
  7. (Teochew) to do
    家己物 [Teochew]  ―  ga1 gi7 muêh8 [Peng'im]  ―  do it by oneself
  8. † Alternative form of 勿
  9. (Southern Min) Alternative form of 乜 (“what”)

Synonyms edit

  • (to do):

Compounds edit

Descendants edit

Sino-Xenic (物):
  • → Vietnamese: vật (物)

References edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

物

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Compounds

Etymology 1 edit

Kanji in this term
物
もの
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

⟨mo2no2⟩ → ⟨mono2⟩ → /mono/

From Old Japanese. Attested in the Kojiki. Ultimately from Proto-Japonic *mənə.

Alternative forms edit

  • (informal) 物(もん) (mon)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

物(もの) • (mono) 

  1. thing (concrete, tangible)
    Synonym: (slang) 物 (butsu)
    1. (law) a corporeal object
      • Japanese Civil Code, Article 85
        この法(ほう)律(りつ)において「物(もの)」とは、有(ゆう)体(たい)物(ぶつ)をいう。
        Kono hōritsu ni oite “mono” to wa, yūtaibutsu o iu.
        The term "Things" as used in this Code shall mean tangible thing.
See also edit
  • 事 (koto, “thing”, abstract, intangible)

Suffix edit

物(もの) or 物(モノ) • (-mono) 

  1. story, genre (type of story)
    密室(みっしつ)モノ
    misshitsu-mono
    locked room story
    探(たん)偵(てい)もののドラマ
    tantei-mono no dorama
    detective drama
    冒(ぼう)険(けん)ものです。
    Bōken-mono desu.
    It is an adventure story.

Prefix edit

物(もの) • (mono-) 

  1. (non-productive, with adjectives) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

/mono/ → /mon/

Shift from mono above.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

物(もん) • (mon) 

  1. (informal) Alternative form of 物 (mono, “thing”)

Etymology 3 edit

Kanji in this term
物
ぶつ
Grade: 3
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 物 (MC mjut). Compare Hokkien 物 (bu̍t).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

物(ぶつ) or 物(ブツ) • (butsu) ←ぶつ (butu)?

  1. (slang) thing
    Synonym: 物 (mono)

Affix edit

物(ぶつ) • (butsu) ←ぶつ (butu)?

  1. thing

References edit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Chinese 物 (MC mjut).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 무ᇙ〮 (Yale: mwúlq)
Middle Korean
Text Eumhun
Gloss (hun) Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527[2] 갓 (Yale: kàs) 믈〮 (Yale: múl)

Pronunciation edit

Hanja edit

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

物 (eumhun 물건(物件) 물 (mulgeon mul))

  1. Hanja form? of 물 (“thing; stuff”).

Compounds edit

Compounds

References edit

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]

Kunigami edit

Kanji edit

物

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

物(むぬー) (munū) 

  1. thing

Miyako edit

Kanji edit

物

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

物(むぬ) (munu) 

  1. thing

Okinawan edit

Kanji edit

物

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

物(むぬ) or 物(むん) (munu or mun) 

  1. thing

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

物: Hán Việt readings: vật
物: Nôm readings: vật

  1. chữ Hán form of vật (“item; object; thing”).

Yaeyama edit

Kanji edit

物

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

物(むぬ) (munu) 

  1. thing

Yonaguni edit

Kanji edit

物

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

物(むぬ) (munu) 

  1. thing
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