| 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 | |||
| JapaneseKana: | 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 orradical do not (毋部) meaning"mother" or"do not" is one of the 34Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4strokes. Chinese characters with a similar component母 "mother" may also be classified under this radical.
In theKangxi Dictionary, there are 16 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under thisradical.
毋 is also the 99th indexing component in theTable of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted bySimplified Chinese dictionaries published inmainland China.
In theHokkien language,毋 is often used to represent the negation particle[m̩], spelledm̄ inPeh-oe-ji andTai-lo.
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +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 |
The radical is also used as an independentChinese character. It is one of theKyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school inJapan.[1] It is a second grade kanji.[1]