what is "mu" wood??

[jetz320]

hi. to everyone here who speaks cantonese, what is "mu" wood? im thinking it is sandalwood but im not sure. my grandparenjavascript:add("%20;D")
Grints are buying me a dragonhead erhu and they said they're getting "mu" wood. so any posts are welcome. thanks

[Charlie Huang]

Ermmmm, I'll have to get back to you on that. First thoughts are, never heard of it!

Sandalwood is tan, jeey tan, or tanheung muk.

[jetz320]

i translated it on google and got this. my friend said it's like violet or something.

檀香

[dsouthwood]

According to the online dictionaries I tried, mu simply means wood:

木 (mù) tree; wood

檀 (tán) sandal wood

紫檀 (zǐ tán) red sandalwood

When I purchased it, I was told that my guzheng is made of "zǐtán mù"

The dictionaries are at:

www.mandarintools.com/chardict.html

and

www.chinalanguage.com/dictionaries/ccdict/

Dennis

[jetz320]

ok. so it is sandalwood am i correct? but my friend said something about purple/violet. thank you for all the help so far though!

[song]

Some people's translation of 紫檀 (zǐ tán) is red sandalwood

紫 actually means Purple or Violet and 檀 is sandalwood.



Sung Wah

[kchang112]

Oct 9, 2007 23:43:26 GMT jetz320 said:

hi. to everyone here who speaks cantonese, what is "mu" wood? im thinking it is sandalwood but im not sure. my grandparenjavascript:add("%20;D")
Grints are buying me a dragonhead erhu and they said they're getting "mu" wood. so any posts are welcome. thanks

I speak Chinese and Mu can mean many different things. In relation to an Erhu, I think Mu (木) is referring to any type of wood.