毋
Radical 80 (U+2F4F)
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

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

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+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

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

  1. 1 2 "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

Literature

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