Radical 80

Radical 80 meaning "mother" or "do not" is 1 of 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 4 strokes.

Radical 80 (U+2F4F)
(U+6BCB) "mother, do not"
Pinyin:
Bopomofo:ㄨˊ
Wade–Giles:wu2
Cantonese Yale:mòuh
Jyutping:mou4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:
Kana:ブ, ム bu, mu
なかれ nakare
Kanji:母 haha, nakare
Hangul:말 mal
Sino-Korean:무 mu
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 16 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

In the Hokkien language, it is often used to represent the negation particle [m̩], spelled in Peh-oe-ji and Tai-lo.

Characters with Radical 80

strokescharacter
without additional strokes毋 毌
1 additional stroke
2 additional strokes
3 additional strokes每 毐
4 additional strokes毑 毒
9 additional strokes

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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