| 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 | |
| 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 | |
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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.
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.
