啄木

Chinese

		to peck	tree; wood
trad. (啄木)		啄	木
simp. #(啄木)		啄	木

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuómù

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄛˊ ㄇㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): doek³ muk⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhuómù
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄛˊ ㄇㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuómù
    • Wade–Giles: cho²-mu⁴
    • Yale: jwó-mù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwomuh
    • Palladius: чжому (čžomu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯ɔ³⁵ mu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: doek³ muk⁶
    • Yale: deuk muhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: doek⁸ muk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dêg³ mug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tœːk̚³ mʊk̚²/

Noun

啄木

1. (literary) woodpecker

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 啄木鳥 (“woodpecker”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		鴷
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		啄木鳥
Taxonomic name		啄木鳥
Mandarin	Beijing	錛得兒木
	Taiwan	啄木鳥
	Ulanhot	錛得鑿子
	Chifeng	刀刀木
	Bayanhot	啄木噔
	Hulunbuir (Hailar)	錛得鑿子
	Harbin	啄木鳥兒, 錛得兒木, 叨木官子
	Yantai (Muping)	啄木鳥兒
	Jinan	餐大木子, 啄木鳥, 啄木蟲 suburbs
	Wanrong	鵮刨刨
	Zhengzhou	叨樹喵, 叨樹貓兒
	Xi'an	鵮多多
	Yinchuan	啄木鳥
	Lanzhou	啄木鳥
	Xining	啄木蟲
	Ürümqi	啄木鳥兒
	Wuhan	啄木鳥
	Huanggang	啄椏佬
	Chengdu	啄木鳥
	Guiyang	啄木鳥
	Guilin	啄木鳥
	Liuzhou	啄木鳥
	Xuzhou	啄木鳥
	Yangzhou	啄木鳥
	Nanjing	啄木鳥
Cantonese	Hong Kong	啄木鳥
	Dongguan	啄木鳥
	Nanning	啄木鳥
	Wuzhou	啄木鳥
	Yulin	啄木鳥
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	啄木鳥
Gan	Nanchang	啄木鳥
	Lichuan	啄木鳥
	Pingxiang	扎木鳥
Hakka	Meixian	啄木鳥
	Yudu	啄木鳥
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	啄樹鳥
	Sabah (Longchuan)	啄木鳥
	Singkawang	啄樹鳥
Huizhou	Jixi	啄木鳥
Jin	Taiyuan	鵮樹蟲
	Pingyao	鵮樹剝姑
	Xinzhou	錛樹鵮子
	Hohhot	錛錛兒木, 啄木鳥
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	啄木鳥
	Fuqing	啄木鳥
Southern Min	Xiamen	啄木鳥
	Dongshan	啄木鳥
	Zhangping (Yongfu)	啄木鳥
	Leizhou	鑿樹公
	Haikou	啄木鳥
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	啄木鳥
Northern Pinghua	Guilin (Dahe)	啄木鳥
Wu	Shanghai	啄木鳥
	Suzhou	啄木鳥
	Danyang	啄木鳥
	Hangzhou	啄木鳥
	Ningbo	啄木鳥
	Jinhua	厾木鳥兒
Xiang	Changsha	啄木官, 啄木鳥
	Loudi	啄木公

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (啄木):

• → Japanese: 啄木(たくぼく) (takuboku)
• → Korean: 탁목(啄木) (tangmok)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
啄	木
たく Jinmeiyō	ぼく Grade: 1
on’yomi	kan’on

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) たくぼく [tàkúbókú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ta̠kɯ̟ᵝbo̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

啄木(タクボク) or 啄(たく)木(ぼく) • (takuboku) 

1. woodpecker

   Synonyms: 啄木鳥 (takubokuchō), キツツキ (kitsutsuki)

2. abbreviation of 啄木組 (takubokugumi): a cord made of various colored threads

References

• Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
• “啄木”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎^[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
• “啄木組”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎^[2] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000