Radical 80
Chinese character radical
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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.
| 毋 | |
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Radical 80 (U+2F4F)
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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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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
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
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]
