勿 (Kangxi radical 20,勹+2, 4 strokes,cangjie input心竹竹 (PHH),four-corner2722₀,composition⿹勹⿰丿丿)

• 伆, 吻, 圽, 岉, 沕, 昒, 歾, 物, 肳, 䀛, 䥼, 粅, 覅, 魩, 䴯, 朆
• 虝, 刎, 㬟, 忽, 曶, 㫚, 甮, 䀜, 䝆, 芴, 笏, 易, 昜, 匢, 囫, 匆

• 匆,匁

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 150, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2501
• Dae Jaweon: page 339, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 255, character 2
• Unihan data for U+52FF

Historical forms of the character勿
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)	Liushutong (compiled inMing)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) –blood on aknife; the original character of刎 (OC*mɯnʔ, “to cut”). Later jiajie (假借) for勿 (OC*mɯd, “do not”) since the time of the oracle bone script.

Unrelated to the right component of a variant of利,𥝢, in turn used on top of the character黎. Also unrelated to匆.

do not (verb) him/her/it!

Fusion of毋 (OC*ma, “should not; don't!”) with之 (OC*tjɯ, “third-person pronoun”) (Schuessler, 2007).

勿

1. (literary or formal, imperative) do not;don't

   請勿吸煙／请勿吸烟  ― qǐngwù xīyān  ―  no smoking (lit. pleasedo not smoke)

   • 己所不欲，勿施於人。[Classical Chinese,trad.]
     己所不欲，勿施于人。[Classical Chinese,simp.]

     From: TheAnalects of Confucius,c. 475 – 221BCE, translated based onJames Legge's version

     Jǐ suǒ bù yù,wù shī yú rén.[Pinyin]

     What you do not want done to yourself,do not do to others.

2. (literary)not

   • 齊侯欲勿許。[Classical Chinese,trad.]
     齐侯欲勿许。[Classical Chinese,simp.]

     From:Commentary of Zuo,c. 4^th centuryBCE

     Qí hóu yùwù xǔ.[Pinyin]

     Duke Ling of Qi wanted tonot agree.

3. used in勿勿

According toPan (2002), developed from a labiodentalized and checked variant of不 (OC*pɯ, *pɯʔ, *pɯ').

In certain varieties the initial has gained voicing and in some cases caused the word shifted to yang tones, either restricted to specific syntactical positions or in all contexts. See also弗 (feq).

勿

1. (Wu)not

   對勿起／对勿起[Shanghainese]  ― ⁵te-veq₈-chi₅[Wugniu]  ― Sorry

   搿種勿二勿三個閒話儂勿要去學伊！[Shanghainese,trad.]
   搿种勿二勿三个闲话侬勿要去学伊！[Shanghainese,simp.]

   ⁸geq-tson₅⁶veq₈-gni₆-veq₆-se₁-gheq₈⁶ghe-gho₆⁶non⁶veq₈-iau₅⁵chi⁸ghoq-yi₆[Wugniu]

   This type ofunholy delinquent language -don't you go on imitating all that!