Radical 80

{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}

{{Infobox Kangxi radical

|80|uni=6BCB

|meaning=mother, do not

|pny= wú

|bopo= ㄨˊ

|wade= wu2

|jyutping= mou4

|yale= mòuh

|poj= bû

|cn=

|onyomi= ブ bu / ム mu

|kunyomi= なかれ nakare

|jp= なかれ nakare
ははのかん hahanokan

|hang= 말 mal

|hanja= 무 mu

}}

Radical 80 or radical do not ({{Lang|zh-Hant|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 {{Linktext|母|lang=zh-Hant}} "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.

{{Lang|zh-Hans|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, {{Lang|zh|毋}} is often used to represent the negation particle {{IPA|nan-TW|m̩|}}, spelled in Peh-oe-ji and Tai-lo.

Evolution

File:毋-bronze.svg|Bronze script character

File:毋-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character

File:毋-seal.svg|Small seal script character

Derived characters

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! Strokes !! Characters

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| +0

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|毋|lang=zh-Hans}}SC/TC/{{Linktext|毋|lang=ja}}JP {{Linktext|毌}}
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| +1

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|母}}
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| +2

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|毎}}JP (=每)
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| +3

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|每}} {{Linktext|毐}}
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| +4

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|毑}} {{Linktext|毒|lang=zh-Hant}}TC/{{Linktext|毒|lang=ja}}JP
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| +9

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|毒|lang=zh-Hans}}SC {{Linktext|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.{{Cite web |title=The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo |url=https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324010221/https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-06 |website=www.kanshudo.com}} It is a second grade kanji.

References

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Literature

  • {{cite book|last= Fazzioli |first= Edoardo |others= calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko |title= Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters |year= 1987 |publisher= Abbeville Press |location= New York|isbn= 0-89659-774-1 }}
  • {{cite book|last= Lunde |first= Ken |title= CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing |edition= Second |date= Jan 5, 2009 |publisher= O'Reilly Media |location= Sebastopol, Calif. |isbn= 978-0-596-51447-1 |chapter= Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets |chapter-url= http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf }}