Radical 80

毋
← 79 Radical 80 (U+2F4F) 81 →
毋 (U+6BCB) "mother, do not"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	wú
Bopomofo:	ㄨˊ
Wade–Giles:	wu2
Cantonese Yale:	mòuh
Jyutping:	mou4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	bû
Japanese Kana:	ブ bu / ム mu (on'yomi) なかれ nakare (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	무 mu
Names
Japanese name(s):	なかれ nakare ははのかん hahanokan
Hangul:	말 mal
Stroke order animation

Radical 80 or radical do not (毋部) meaning "mother" or "do not" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes. Chinese characters with a similar component 母 "mother" may also be classified under this radical.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 16 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

毋 is also the 99th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

In the Hokkien language, 毋 is often used to represent the negation particle [m̩], spelled m̄ in Peh-oe-ji and Tai-lo.

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The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It is a second grade kanji.^[1]

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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