木村

Chinese

		tree; wood	village
simp. and trad. (木村)		木	村

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Mùcūn

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˋ ㄘㄨㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): muk⁶ cyun¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Mùcūn
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˋ ㄘㄨㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Mùcun
  - Wade–Giles: Mu⁴-tsʻun¹
  - Yale: Mù-tswūn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Muhtsuen
  - Palladius: Муцунь (Mucunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu⁵¹ t͡sʰu̯ən⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: muk⁶ cyun¹
  - Yale: muhk chyūn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: muk⁹ tsyn¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: mug⁶ qun¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mʊk̚² t͡sʰyːn⁵⁵/

Proper noun

木村

an orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 木村, Kimura

Japanese

Kanji in this term
木	村
き Grade: 1	むら Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Etymology

Compound of 木(き) (ki, “tree”) + 村(むら) (mura, “village”). Literally, “tree village”.

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) きむら [kìmúrá] (Heiban – [0])
IPA^(key): [kʲimɯ̟ɾa̠]

Proper noun

木(き)村(むら) • (Kimura)

a historical village in Gamō, Ōmi, Tōsandō, Japan; equivalent to the former place in Gamō, Gamō district, Shiga Prefecture, now a place in Higashiōmi, Shiga Prefecture
a surname
木(き)村(むら)拓(たく)哉(や) ― kimura Takuya ― Takuya Kimura

Descendants

→ Chinese: 木村 (Mùcūn)
→ English: Kimura