wú
hold in mouth
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 吾 represents the sound.
Evolution
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
wú
hold in mouth; bite; (Cant.) not, negation; oh (expression of agreement or surprise); (Cantonese) not
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 9.2263% of movies
1518th most common character in movies
3202nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+5514 |
Sources
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