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无
Radical 71 (U+2F46)
无 (U+65E0) "negative, no, not"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	wú, mó
Bopomofo:	ㄨˊ
Wade–Giles:	wu2 mou2
Cantonese Yale:	mòuh
Jyutping:	mou4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	bû
Japanese Kana:	ム mu / ブ bu (on'yomi) な-い na-i (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	무 mu
Names
Japanese name(s):	无し/なし nashi 无/ぶ bu 无繞/むにょう munyō 既の旁/すでのつくり sudenotsukuri
Hangul:	없을 eopseul
Stroke order animation

Radical 71 or radical not (无部) meaning "nothing" or "negative" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 12 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

无 is also the 62nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 旡 being its associated indexing component.

无 as an individual character is a variant form of 無. In Simplified Chinese, 无 is used as the simplified form of 無.

Evolution

无

Historic forms of 无 and 無 are the same. Unrelated to 旡.

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  Oracle bone script
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  Bronze script
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  Chu slip and silk script
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  Qin slip script
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  Large seal script (无)
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  Large seal script (無)
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  Small seal script

旡

Reverse of 欠.

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  Oracle bone script
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  Large seal script (旡)
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  Small seal script

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	无SC/variant (=無 -> 火) 旡
+5	既
+7	旣Kangxi/KO (=既)
+9	旤

Literature

• 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.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+65E0