木 — how to write the kanji for “tree”

木 (“tree” and “wood”) is a JLPT N5 kanji taught in first grade in Japan. In newspapers it is the 317th most used kanji. As one of the 214 traditional radicals it heads 700 kanji in KANJIDIC2. On its own it is the word ki, “tree; shrub”. Read moku, it forms 木造 (“wooden”), 木材 (“lumber”) and 樹木 (“tree”); the native reading ki gives 青木 (“Japanese laurel…”) and 荒木 (“logs in bark”). Chinese reads it mù, “tree”, at HSK 5.

Strokes

4

JLPT

N5

Radical

木 (“tree”)

On

モク, ボク

Kun

き, こ-