wǔ
dance
Phonosemantic compound. 舛 (two feet) represents the meaning and 無 represents the sound.
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Bronze script
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Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k.m(r)aʔ | mjuX | wǔ | dance (v.) |
HSK level 5
Appears in 45.8914% of movies
319th most common character in movies
1144th most common character in books
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+821E |
Shuowen | “舞,樂也。用足相背。从舛,舞聲。,古文舞从羽、亡。” |