# 木耳
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Standard)
       (Pinyin): mù'ěr
       (Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˋ ㄦˇ
    (Xi'an, Guanzhong Pinyin): mǔ'er
    (Nanjing, Nanjing Pinyin): můq'ěr
* Cantonese
    (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): muk$^6$ ji$^5$
    (Yangjiang, Jyutping++): muk$^6$ ji$^2$
* Gan (Wiktionary): muh$^6$ 'eo$^3$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): muk-mí
    (Hailu, HRS): mug mi$^ˊ$
    (Meixian, Guangdong): mug$^5$ mi$^3$
* Jin (Wiktionary): meh$^4$ er$^2$
* Northern Min (KCR): mù-nèng
* Eastern Min (BUC): mŭk-mī
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): borh$^7$ zi$^3$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): bo̍k-ní / bo̍k-lí / bo̍k-jí / bo̍k-jíⁿ / bo̍k-gí / bo̍k-mí
    (Teochew, Peng'im): bhag$^8$ re$^2$
* Southern Pinghua (Nanning, Jyutping++): moek$^5$ nji$^2$
* Wu (Wugniu)
** (Northern): $^8$moq-gher$_6$ / $^8$moq-gni$_6$ / $^8$moq-er$_3$ / $^8$moq-er$_6$
** (Jinhua): $^8$moq-er$_3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: mù'ěr
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˋ ㄦˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: mù-ěr
*** Wade–Giles: mu$^4$-êrh$^3$
*** Yale: mù-ěr
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muheel
*** Palladius: муэр (muer)
*** Sinological IPA : /mu⁵¹ ˀɤɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
** (Xi'an)
*** Guanzhong Pinyin: mǔ'er
*** Sinological IPA : /mu²¹ ər/
** (Nanjing)
*** Nanjing Pinyin: můq'ěr
*** Nanjing Pinyin (numbered): muq$^5$ er$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /muʔ⁵ ər¹¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: muk$^6$ ji$^5$
*** Yale: muhk yíh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: muk$^9$ ji$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: mug$^6$ yi$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /mʊk̚² jiː¹³/
** (Yangjiang Yue, Jiangcheng)
*** Jyutping++: muk$^6$ ji$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /mʊk̚⁵⁵ ji²¹/
* Gan
** (Nanchang)
*** Wiktionary: muh$^6$ 'eo$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /muʔ⁵ ˈɵ²¹³/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: muk-mí
*** Hakka Romanization System: mug$^ˋ$ mi$^ˋ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: mug$^5$ mi$^3$
*** Sinological IPA: /muk̚² mi³¹/
** (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
*** Hakka Romanization System: mug mi$^ˊ$
*** Sinological IPA: /muk⁵⁻² mi²⁴/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: mug$^5$ mi$^3$
*** Sinological IPA: /mʊk̚¹ mi³¹/
* Jin
** (Taiyuan)
*** Wiktionary: meh$^4$ er$^2$
*** Sinological IPA (old-style): /məʔ²⁻⁴⁵ əɻ⁵³/
* Northern Min
** (Jian'ou)
*** Kienning Colloquial Romanized: mù-nèng
*** Sinological IPA : /mu⁴² neiŋ⁴²/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: mŭk-mī
*** Sinological IPA : /muʔ⁵⁻³³ mi³³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: borh$^7$ zi$^3$ [Phonetic: borh$^6$ zi$^3$]
*** Sinological IPA : /pɒʔ⁴⁻¹ t͡si⁴⁵³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: borh$^7$ zi$^3$ [Phonetic: borh$^6$ zi$^3$]
*** Sinological IPA : /pɒʔ²⁴⁻² t͡si³³²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Lukang, Sanxia, Kinmen, Magong, Hsinchu, Taichung, Wuqi, Penang, Philippines)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bo̍k-ní
*** Tâi-lô: bo̍k-ní
*** Phofsit Daibuun: bognie
*** IPA (Lukang): /bɔk̚³⁵⁻² nĩ⁵⁵/
*** IPA (Philippines): /bɔk̚²⁴⁻² ni⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Penang): /bɔk̚⁴⁻³ ni⁴⁴⁵/
*** IPA (Tainan): /bɔk̚⁴⁻¹ nĩ⁵³/
*** IPA (Kinmen): /bɔk̚⁵⁴⁻³² nĩ⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɔk̚⁴⁻³² nĩ⁴¹/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /bɔk̚⁴⁻³² nĩ⁵³/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Lukang, Wanhua, Philippines)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bo̍k-lí
*** Tâi-lô: bo̍k-lí
*** Phofsit Daibuun: boglie
*** IPA (Lukang): /bɔk̚³⁵⁻² li⁵⁵/
*** IPA (Quanzhou, Philippines): /bɔk̚²⁴⁻² li⁵⁵⁴/
** (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Yilan)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bo̍k-jí
*** Tâi-lô: bo̍k-jí
*** Phofsit Daibuun: bogjie
*** IPA (Yilan): /bɔk̚⁵⁻² d͡zi⁵³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ d͡zi⁵³/
** (Hokkien: Yilan)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bo̍k-jíⁿ
*** Tâi-lô: bo̍k-jínn
*** Phofsit Daibuun: bogjvie
*** IPA (Yilan): /bɔk̚⁵⁻² d͡zĩ⁵³/
** (Hokkien: Taichung, Taitung)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bo̍k-gí
*** Tâi-lô: bo̍k-gí
*** Phofsit Daibuun: boggie
** (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bo̍k-mí
*** Tâi-lô: bo̍k-mí
*** Phofsit Daibuun: bogmie
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɔk̚⁴⁻³² mĩ⁴¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /bɔk̚⁴⁻³² mĩ⁵³/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: bhag$^8$ re$^2$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ba̍k jṳ́
*** Sinological IPA : /bak̚⁴⁻² d͡zɯ⁵²/
* Southern Pinghua
** (Nanning Pinghua, Tingzi)
*** Jyutping++: moek$^5$ nji$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /møk̚²⁴ ɲi³³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^8$moq-gher$_6$
*** MiniDict: moh$^入$ r$^去$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^5$moq-hher$_3$
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /moʔ¹¹ ɦəl²³/
** (Northern: Shanghai, Suzhou)
*** Wugniu: $^8$moq-gni$_6$
*** MiniDict: moh$^入$ nyi$^去$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^5$moq-nyi$_3$
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /moʔ¹¹ n̠ʲi²³/
*** Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /moʔ²² n̠ʲi⁵²³/
** (Northern: Hangzhou)
*** Wugniu: $^8$moq-er$_3$
*** MiniDict: moh$^入$ 'r$^上$
*** Sinological IPA (Hangzhou): /moʔ²² əl⁵³/
** (Northern: Ningbo)
*** Wugniu: $^8$moq-er$_6$
*** MiniDict: moh$^入$ r$^去$
*** Sinological IPA (Ningbo): /moʔ²² əl³⁵/
** (Jinhua)
*** Wugniu: $^8$moq-er$_3$
*** Sinological IPA (Jinhua): /moʔ²¹ əl⁵³⁵/

### Noun

木耳
* wood ear; tree ear; black fungus (Auricularia, especially Auricularia heimuer) (Classifier: 朵 m)

#### Synonyms

| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | Classical Chinese | 木耳, 栮, 栭, 䓴 |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 木耳, 黑木耳 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 木耳 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 木耳 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Chengde | 木耳 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Chifeng | 木耳 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Hulunbuir (Hailar) | 木耳 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Heihe | 木耳 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Qiqihar | 木耳, 耳子 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Harbin | 木耳, 黑菜 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Jiamusi | 木耳 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Baicheng | 木耳 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Changchun | 蘑耳 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Tonghua | 蘑耳 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Shenyang | 木耳 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Jinzhou | 木耳 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Tianjin | 木耳 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Tangshan | 木耳 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Cangzhou | 木耳 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Baoding | 木耳 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Shijiazhuang | 木耳 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Lijin | 木耳 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 木耳 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Dalian | 黑菜 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Dandong | 木耳, 黑菜 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai | 木耳 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 木耳 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Qingdao | 木耳 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Zhucheng | 木耳 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 木耳 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Lingbao | 木耳 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Jining | 木耳 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong | 木耳 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Linfen | 木耳 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Shangqiu | 木耳 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Yuanyang | 木耳 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Zhengzhou | 木耳 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xinyang | 木耳 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Baihe | 木耳 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 木耳 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Baoji | 木耳, 黑木耳 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Tianshui | 木耳 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xining | 木耳 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xuzhou | 木耳, 黑木耳, 青木 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Fuyang | 木耳 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Yinchuan | 木耳 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Lanzhou | 木耳 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Dunhuang | 木耳 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Hami | 木耳 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Ürümqi | 木耳, 黑木耳 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 耳子 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Nanchong | 木耳 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Dazhou | 耳子 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Hanyuan | 耳子 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Xichang | 木耳 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Zigong | 木耳 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chongqing | 耳子 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 木耳, 黑木耳, 耳子, 黑耳子 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Yichang | 木耳 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Xiangyang | 木耳 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Tianmen | 木耳 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guiyang | 木耳 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Zunyi | 木耳 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Bijie | 木耳 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Liping | 木耳 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Zhaotong | 木耳 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Dali | 木耳 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Kunming | 木耳 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Mengzi | 木耳 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guilin | 木耳 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Liuzhou | 木耳, 黑木耳 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Jishou | 木耳 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Changde | 木耳 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Hanzhong | 木耳 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nanjing | 黑木耳, 木耳 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 木耳, 黑木耳 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Lianyungang | 木耳 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Lianshui | 木耳, 樹耳 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nantong | 木耳 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Anqing | 木耳 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Wuhu | 木耳 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Hong'an | 木耳, 黑木耳, 耳子, 黑耳子 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 雲耳, 木耳 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 雲耳, 木耳 |
| Cantonese | Dongguan | 雲耳 |
| Gan | Nanchang | 木耳 |
| Gan | Lichuan | 木耳, 雲耳 |
| Gan | Pingxiang | 木耳, 黑木耳 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 木耳 |
| Hakka | Yudu | 木耳 |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 木耳 |
| Huizhou | Shexian | 木耳 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 木耳 |
| Jin | Yangyuan | 木耳 |
| Jin | Datong | 木耳 |
| Jin | Xinzhou | 木耳 |
| Jin | Lüliang (Lishi) | 木耳 |
| Jin | Changzhi | 木耳 |
| Jin | Linhe | 木耳 |
| Jin | Jining | 木耳 |
| Jin | Hohhot | 木耳 |
| Jin | Erenhot | 木耳 |
| Jin | Pingshan | 木耳 |
| Jin | Zhangjiakou | 木耳 |
| Jin | Handan | 木耳 |
| Jin | Linzhou | 木耳 |
| Jin | Suide | 木耳 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 木耳 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 木耳 |
| Eastern Min | Fuqing | 木耳 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 木耳, 烏木耳 |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 木耳, 烏木耳 |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 木耳, 烏木耳 |
| Southern Min | Penang (Hokkien) | 木耳, 烏木耳 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Hokkien) | 烏木耳 |
| Southern Min | Haikou | 皺耳 |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 木耳 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 木耳 |
| Wu | Shanghai (Chongming) | 黑木耳, 銀引 |
| Wu | Danyang | 木耳, 黑木耳 |
| Wu | Hangzhou | 黑木耳 |
| Wu | Ningbo | 黑木耳 |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 木耳, 黑木耳 |
| Wu | Jinhua | 木耳 |
| Wu | Jinhua (Tangxi) | 毛鹵 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 墨耳子, 耳子 |

#### Derived terms

* 木耳菜 (mù'ěrcài)
* 烏木耳 / 乌木耳
* 白木耳 (báimù'ěr)
* 粉木耳 (fěnmù'ěr)
* 黑木耳 (hēimù'ěr)

#### See also

* 雲耳／云耳 (yún'ěr)

### References

* 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “木耳”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎ (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
* “木耳”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
* “Entry #372”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Chinese and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.
* 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “1391 木耳”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 427.

## Japanese

Kanji in this term :
| 木 | 耳 |
| きくらげ ||
| Grade: 1 | Grade: 1 |
| jukujikun ||

### Etymology

Compound of 木(き) (ki, “tree”) + 水母(くらげ) (kurage, “jellyfish”). The kanji are jukujikun (熟字訓), either from the fungus's shape or from Chinese.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kʲikɯ̟ɾa̠ɡe̞]

### Noun

木耳(きくらげ) or 木耳(キクラゲ) • (kikurage)
* wood ear, jelly ear, Jew's ear (Auricularia auricula-judae)

#### Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary).

#### Derived terms

* 白木耳(シロキクラゲ) (shirokikurage)

## Korean

Hanja in this term :
| 木 | 耳 |

### Noun

木耳 • (mogi) (hangeul 목이)
* hanja form of 목이 (“Jew's-ear mushroom”)

## Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term :
| 木 | 耳 |

### Noun

木耳
* chữ Hán form of mộc nhĩ (“wood ear fungus”).