"朽木" meaning in Chinese

See 朽木 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /nɐu̯³⁵ mʊk̚²/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /hiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚¹²¹/ [Hokkien, Zhangzhou], /hiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚⁴/ [Hokkien, Xiamen], /hiu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bɔk̚²⁴/ [Hokkien, Quanzhou], /ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu⁵¹/, /nɐu̯³⁵ mʊk̚²/, /hiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚¹²¹/, /hiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚⁴/, /hiu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bɔk̚²⁴/ Chinese transliterations: xiǔmù [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄒㄧㄡˇ ㄇㄨˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo], nau² muk⁶ [Cantonese, Jyutping], hiú-bo̍k, xiǔmù [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], siǒumù [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], hsiu³-mu⁴ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], syǒu-mù [Mandarin, Yale], sheoumuh [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], сюму [Mandarin, Palladius], sjumu [Mandarin, Palladius], náu muhk [Cantonese, Yale], nau² muk⁹ [Cantonese, Pinyin], neo² mug⁶ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], hiú-bo̍k [Hokkien, POJ], hiú-bo̍k [Hokkien, Tai-lo], hiw'bok [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], xjuwX muwk [Middle-Chinese], /*qʰ(r)uʔ C.mˤok/ [Baxter-Sagart, Old-Chinese], /*qʰluʔ moːɡ/ [Old-Chinese, Zhengzhang]
Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 朽木
  1. rotten wood Synonyms (rotten wood): 痡柴 [Hokkien], 臭柴, 漚柴, 沤柴
    Sense id: en-朽木-zh-noun-aMYE1h6c Disambiguation of 'rotten wood': 99 1
  2. (figurative) hopeless case; good-for-nothing Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-朽木-zh-noun-RkmVsotC Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 38 62 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 21 79 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 79
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 朽木不可雕 (xiǔmù bùkě diāo)
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "xiǔmù bùkě diāo",
      "word": "朽木不可雕"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "朽木",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Rotten wood cannot be carved; a wall of dirty earth will not receive the trowel. This Yu! - what is the use of my reproving him?",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Classical Chinese",
            "Traditional Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version",
          "roman": "Xiǔmù bùkě diāo yě, fèntǔ zhī qiáng bùkě wū yě! Yú Yǔ yǔ hé zhū?",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "朽木不可雕也,糞土之牆不可杇也!于予與何誅?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "Rotten wood cannot be carved; a wall of dirty earth will not receive the trowel. This Yu! - what is the use of my reproving him?",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Classical Chinese",
            "Simplified Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version",
          "roman": "Xiǔmù bùkě diāo yě, fèntǔ zhī qiáng bùkě wū yě! Yú Yǔ yǔ hé zhū?",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "朽木不可雕也,粪土之墙不可杇也!于予与何诛?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "rotten wood"
      ],
      "id": "en-朽木-zh-noun-aMYE1h6c",
      "links": [
        [
          "rotten",
          "rotten"
        ],
        [
          "wood",
          "wood"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "sense": "rotten wood",
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "痡柴"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "sense": "rotten wood",
          "word": "臭柴"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "sense": "rotten wood",
          "word": "漚柴"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "sense": "rotten wood",
          "word": "沤柴"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "38 62",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 79",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 79",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hopeless case; good-for-nothing"
      ],
      "id": "en-朽木-zh-noun-RkmVsotC",
      "links": [
        [
          "hopeless",
          "hopeless"
        ],
        [
          "case",
          "case"
        ],
        [
          "good-for-nothing",
          "good-for-nothing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) hopeless case; good-for-nothing"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xiǔmù"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄒㄧㄡˇ ㄇㄨˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "nau² muk⁶"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "hiú-bo̍k"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xiǔmù"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "siǒumù"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hsiu³-mu⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "syǒu-mù"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sheoumuh"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "сюму"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sjumu"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "náu muhk"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "nau² muk⁹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "neo² mug⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/nɐu̯³⁵ mʊk̚²/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hiú-bo̍k"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hiú-bo̍k"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hiw'bok"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚¹²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hiu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bɔk̚²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xjuwX muwk"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Baxter-Sagart",
        "Old-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*qʰ(r)uʔ C.mˤok/"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-Chinese",
        "Zhengzhang"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*qʰluʔ moːɡ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu⁵¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/nɐu̯³⁵ mʊk̚²/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚¹²¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hiu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bɔk̚²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/*qʰ(r)uʔ C.mˤok/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/*qʰluʔ moːɡ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "朽木"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese nouns",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 木",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 朽",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Middle Chinese lemmas",
    "Middle Chinese nouns",
    "Old Chinese lemmas",
    "Old Chinese nouns",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "xiǔmù bùkě diāo",
      "word": "朽木不可雕"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "朽木",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Literary Chinese terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Rotten wood cannot be carved; a wall of dirty earth will not receive the trowel. This Yu! - what is the use of my reproving him?",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Classical Chinese",
            "Traditional Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version",
          "roman": "Xiǔmù bùkě diāo yě, fèntǔ zhī qiáng bùkě wū yě! Yú Yǔ yǔ hé zhū?",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "朽木不可雕也,糞土之牆不可杇也!于予與何誅?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "Rotten wood cannot be carved; a wall of dirty earth will not receive the trowel. This Yu! - what is the use of my reproving him?",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Classical Chinese",
            "Simplified Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version",
          "roman": "Xiǔmù bùkě diāo yě, fèntǔ zhī qiáng bùkě wū yě! Yú Yǔ yǔ hé zhū?",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "朽木不可雕也,粪土之墙不可杇也!于予与何诛?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "rotten wood"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rotten",
          "rotten"
        ],
        [
          "wood",
          "wood"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "hopeless case; good-for-nothing"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hopeless",
          "hopeless"
        ],
        [
          "case",
          "case"
        ],
        [
          "good-for-nothing",
          "good-for-nothing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) hopeless case; good-for-nothing"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xiǔmù"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄒㄧㄡˇ ㄇㄨˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "nau² muk⁶"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "hiú-bo̍k"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xiǔmù"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "siǒumù"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hsiu³-mu⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "syǒu-mù"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sheoumuh"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "сюму"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sjumu"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "náu muhk"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "nau² muk⁹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "neo² mug⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/nɐu̯³⁵ mʊk̚²/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hiú-bo̍k"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hiú-bo̍k"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hiw'bok"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚¹²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hiu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bɔk̚²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xjuwX muwk"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Baxter-Sagart",
        "Old-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*qʰ(r)uʔ C.mˤok/"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-Chinese",
        "Zhengzhang"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*qʰluʔ moːɡ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu⁵¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/nɐu̯³⁵ mʊk̚²/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚¹²¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hiu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bɔk̚²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/*qʰ(r)uʔ C.mˤok/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/*qʰluʔ moːɡ/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "rotten wood",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "痡柴"
    },
    {
      "sense": "rotten wood",
      "word": "臭柴"
    },
    {
      "sense": "rotten wood",
      "word": "漚柴"
    },
    {
      "sense": "rotten wood",
      "word": "沤柴"
    }
  ],
  "word": "朽木"
}

Download raw JSONL data for 朽木 meaning in Chinese (4.1kB)

{
  "called_from": "pronunciations/296/20230324",
  "msg": "Zh-pron header not found in zh_pron_tags or tags: '(Standard Chinese)⁺'",
  "path": [
    "朽木"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "朽木",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "pronunciations/296/20230324",
  "msg": "Zh-pron header not found in zh_pron_tags or tags: 'Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ)'",
  "path": [
    "朽木"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "朽木",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "pronunciations/296/20230324",
  "msg": "Zh-pron header not found in zh_pron_tags or tags: 'Southern Min'",
  "path": [
    "朽木"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "朽木",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "pronunciations/296/20230324",
  "msg": "Zh-pron header not found in zh_pron_tags or tags: '(Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺'",
  "path": [
    "朽木"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "朽木",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.