木
き · also もく
tree; shrub; bush; wood
Meaning
- tree; shrub; bush
- wood; timber
- wooden clappers (signalling the beginning or end of a performance)
- Thursday
- wood (first of the five elements)
Example sentences
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In woodworking, we classify wood as hardwood, softwood or exotic wood.
移民たちは、そこへ、木の漁船にすし詰め状態で、危険な航海をするのである。
Packed into wooden fishing boats like sardines, the immigrants undergo the dangerous voyage there.
きつつきは、長く尖ったくちばしで、木の幹をつついて、中にいる虫を食べます。
Woodpeckers peck tree trunks with their long pointed beaks and eat insects found there.