wú
negative
Pictograph of a person (大) dancing with decorations (革) hanging from his arms, conveying the meaning "dance". Original form of 舞 (dance). The current form is a phonetic loan. The simplified character 无 was adapted from the cursive form of the traditional character 無.
Bronze script
Seal script
Clerical script
Regular script
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ma | mju | wú | not have |
HSK level 4
Appears in 98.0618% of movies
165th most common character in movies
105th most common character in books
Strokes | 4 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+65E0 |
Shuowen | “,亡也,从亡無聲;无,奇字无,通於元者,王育說:‘天屈西北為无。’” |