植物

Chinese

to plant thing; object; matter
simp. and trad.
(植物)		 植 物

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 植 植 物
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
Initial (聲) 澄 (11) 常 (25) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 之 (19) 職 (134) 物 (60)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Closed
Division (等) III III III
Fanqie 直吏切 常職切 文弗切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɖɨH/ /d͡ʑɨk̚/ /mɨut̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɖɨH/ /d͡ʑɨk̚/ /miut̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȡieH/ /d͡ʑiek̚/ /miuət̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɖɨH/ /d͡ʑik̚/ /mut̚/
Li
Rong		 /ȡiəH/ /ʑiək̚/ /miuət̚/
Wang
Li		 /ȡĭəH/ /ʑĭək̚/ /mĭuət̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȡʱiH/ /ʑi̯ək̚/ /mi̯uət̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhì shí wù
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 植 植 植 物
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhí zhí zhí wù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ driH › ‹ driH › ‹ dzyik › ‹ mjut ›
Old
Chinese		 /*N-t<r>ək-s/ /*m-t<r>ək-s/ /*m-tək/ /*C.mut/
English grow, flourish to plant, set upright to plant; plants 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 植 植 物
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
No. 17263 17273 13218
Phonetic
component		 直 直 勿
Rime
group		 代 職 物
Rime
subdivision		 0 0 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 值 寔 物
Old
Chinese		 /*dɯɡs/ /*djɯɡ/ /*mɯd/

Noun

植物

  1. (botany) plant; vegetation; flora (Classifier: 棵 m; 樖 c)

Derived terms

See also

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (植物):

Japanese

Kanji in this term
植 物
うえ
Grade: 3		 もの
Grade: 3
kun’yomi
Kanji in this term
植 物
しょく
Grade: 3		 ぶつ
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

植物 (hiragana しょくぶつ, rōmaji shokubutsu, alternative reading うえもの, rōmaji uemono, historical hiragana うゑもの)

  1. plant; vegetation

Usage notes

The Chinese-derived reading shokubutsu is more common.

Antonyms

References

  1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  • 2000, Jonathan Bunt, Gillian Hall, The Oxford Starter Japanese Dictionary, First Edition, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
植物

Noun

植物 • (singmul) (hangeul 식물)

  1. Hanja form? of 식물 (“plants, vegetation”).

Vietnamese

Hán tự in this word
植物

Noun

植物

  1. Hán tự form of thực vật, “plants, vegetation”
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