木

tree, wood

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

ボクモク

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

きこ-

Nanori (名乗り)

ぐももと

Stroke Order

4 / 4

Information

Grade:1

Strokes:4

JLPT:N5

Frequency:317

Vocabulary

ボク

Word	Reading	Meaning
雑木林	ザツボクリン	grove of miscellaneous trees; copse; coppice; thicket
大木	タイボク	large tree
土木	ドボク	engineering works; civil engineering; public works
枯木	コボク	dead tree; withered tree; leafless tree; bare tree
一木	イチボク	one tree

モク

Word	Reading	Meaning
材木	ザイモク	wood (for building); lumber; timber
樹木	ジュモク	tree; trees and shrubs
木材	モクザイ	lumber; timber; wood
木星	モクセイ	Jupiter (planet)
木製	モクセイ	wooden; made of wood

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
荒木	あらき	logs in bark; rough wood; unseasoned timber; new lumber
黒木	くろき	unbarked lumber
雑木林	ぞうきばやし	grove of miscellaneous trees; copse; coppice; thicket
定木	じょうぎ	(measuring) ruler
庭木	にわき	garden tree

Visually Similar Kanji

These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes

book, present, main, origin, true, real, counter for long cylindrical things

end, close, tip, powder, posterity

un-, not yet, hitherto, still, even now, sign of the ram, 1-3PM, eighth sign of Chinese zodiac

heavens, sky, imperial

length, ten shaku, measure, Mr., Ms., height, stature, all (one has), only, that's all, merely

Grade 8JLPT N/A

officer, an official

vermilion, cinnabar, scarlet, red, bloody

rice, USA, metre