Radical 80
毋 | ||
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毋 (U+6BCB) "mother, do not" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | wú | |
Bopomofo: | ㄨˊ | |
Wade–Giles: | wu2 | |
Cantonese Yale: | mòuh | |
Jyutping: | mou4 | |
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | bû | |
Japanese Kana: | ブ bu / ム mu (on'yomi) なかれ nakare (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 무 mu | |
Names | ||
Japanese name(s): | なかれ nakare ははのかん hahanokan | |
Hangul: | 말 mal | |
Stroke order animation | ||
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Radical 80 or radical do not (毋部) meaning "mother" or "do not" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes. Chinese characters with a similar component 母 "mother" may also be classified under this radical.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 16 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
毋 is also the 99th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
In the Hokkien language, 毋 is often used to represent the negation particle [m̩], spelled m̄ in Peh-oe-ji and Tai-lo.
Evolution
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Bronze script character
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Large seal script character
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
[edit]Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 毋SC/TC/毋JP 毌 |
+1 | 母 |
+2 | 毎JP (=每) |
+3 | 每 毐 |
+4 | 毑 毒TC/毒JP |
+9 | 毒SC 毓 |
Sinogram
[edit]The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a second grade kanji[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
Literature
[edit]- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
- Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
External links
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