无

See also: 無
无 U+65E0, 无
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-65E0
← 旟
[U+65DF] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 旡 →
[U+65E1]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

无 (radical 71, 无+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 一大山 (MKU))

  1. Kangxi radical #71, ⽆.

Derived characters

Descendants

Usage notes

  • All characters sorted under this radical are actually derived from 旡.

References

  • KangXi: page 485, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13716
  • Dae Jaweon: page 847, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1147, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+65E0

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 无
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

One of the three characters (無, 无, 亡) that have historically been used to represent the word "no, not any". First attested in the Warring States period; used interchangeably with 無 until the Tang dynasty. Readopted by the PRC in 1956.

The origin of this character is unknown. Probably an ancient variant form of either 元, 天 or 堯.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 无 – see 無 (“to not have something; there is not ...; etc.”).
(This character, 无, is the simplified and variant form of 無.)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

无

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. nothing
  2. not exist
  3. crooked heaven radical (no.71)
  4. Alternative form of 無

Readings

Korean

Hanja

无 • (mu) (hangeul 무, revised mu, McCune–Reischauer mu, Yale mu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

无 (vô)

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