Radical 80

Radical 80 or radical do not (毋部) meaning 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
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

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

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York, 1987: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.CS1 maint: location (link)
  • 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.
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