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.
Oracle script
Bronze script
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Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ma | mju | wú | not have |
*ma | mju | wú | volitional prefix |
*mo | mju | wú | don’t |
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 98.0618% of movies
165th most common character in movies
105th most common character in books
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7121 |
Shuowen | “,豐也。从林、。或說規模字。从大;,數之積也;林者,木之多也。與庶同意。《商書》曰:`庶草繁無’。” |