物

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

Translingual
Stroke order
8 strokes
Stroke order

Han character

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

Derived characters
  • 𭈘, 𠡵, 惣, 𤊘, 𭱮, 鿯, 𫙦, 𭬲, 𰂫

References
  • 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
simp. and trad.
 物

Glyph origin
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

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

Note:
  • mi̍h/mn̍gh - vernacular (“thing”);
  • mih - vernacular (limited, used in 物仔, 物代, 啥物, etc.);
  • bu̍t - literary.
    • Wu
      • (Shanghai):
        • Wugniu: 8veq; 8meq
        • MiniDict: veh入; meh入
        • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): 5veq; 5meq
        • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /vəʔ¹²/, /məʔ¹²/
    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) 物 (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

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
  • (to do):

Compounds

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

References

Japanese

Kanji
物

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds
Compounds

Etymology 1
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

Pronunciation

Noun

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
  • 事 (koto, “thing”, abstract, intangible)

Suffix

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

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

Etymology 2

/mono/ → /mon/

Shift from mono above.

Pronunciation

Noun

物(もん) • (mon) 

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

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

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

Pronunciation

Noun

物(ぶつ) or 物(ブツ) • (butsu) ←ぶつ (butu)?

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

Affix

物(ぶつ) • (butsu) ←ぶつ (butu)?

  1. thing

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 物 (MC mjut).

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

Pronunciation

Hanja

Wikisource 物 (eumhun 물건(物件) 물 (mulgeon mul))

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

Compounds
Compounds

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

Kunigami

Kanji
物

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /munuː/

Noun

物(むぬー) (munū) 

  1. thing

Miyako

Kanji
物

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /munu/

Noun

物(むぬ) (munu) 

  1. thing

Okinawan

Kanji
物

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /munu/, /muŋ/

Noun

物(むぬ) or 物(むん) (munu or mun) 

  1. thing

Vietnamese

Han character

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

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

Yaeyama

Kanji
物

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /munu/

Noun

物(むぬ) (munu) 

  1. thing

Yonaguni

Kanji
物

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /munu/

Noun

物(むぬ) (munu) 

  1. thing
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