木主

See also: 柱

Chinese

		tree; wood	to own; to host; master to own; to host; master; lord; primary
simp. and trad. (木主)		木	主

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mùzhǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˋ ㄓㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): muk⁶ zyu²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mùzhǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˋ ㄓㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mùjhǔ
    • Wade–Giles: mu⁴-chu³
    • Yale: mù-jǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muhjuu
    • Palladius: мучжу (mučžu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: muk⁶ zyu²
    • Yale: muhk jyú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: muk⁹ dzy²
    • Guangdong Romanization: mug⁶ ju²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mʊk̚² t͡syː³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: muwk tsyuX

Rime
Character	木	主
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	屋 (3)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	莫卜切	之庾切
Baxter	muwk	tsyuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muk̚/	/t͡ɕɨoX/
Pan Wuyun	/muk̚/	/t͡ɕioX/
Shao Rongfen	/muk̚/	/t͡ɕioX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məwk̚/	/cuə̆X/
Li Rong	/muk̚/	/t͡ɕioX/
Wang Li	/muk̚/	/t͡ɕĭuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/muk̚/	/t͡ɕi̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mù	zhǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	muk6	zyu2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.mˤok  toʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*moːɡ  tjoʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	木	主
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mù	zhǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ muwk ›	‹ tsyuX ›
Old Chinese	/*C.mˁok/	/*toʔ/
English	tree, wood	master; host
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	木	主
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	9327	17618
Phonetic component	木	主
Rime group	屋	侯
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	木	主
Old Chinese	/*moːɡ/	/*tjoʔ/

Noun

木主

1. ancestral tablet (wooden commemorative tablet bearing the honorific titles of a deceased ancestor)

   • 武王載木主，號為文王，東伐紂。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     武王载木主，号为文王，东伐纣。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Wǔwáng zài mùzhǔ, hào wéi Wénwáng, dōng fá Zhòu. [Pinyin]

     King Wu, with a wooden tablet bearing the title "King Wen" carried among his troops, was on his eastward expedition against King Zhou.

Synonyms

• 神主 (shénzhǔ)