务 · wù
affairs, business; must, should
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
affairs, business; must, should
- Mandarin
- wù
- Cantonese
- mou6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+52A1
- Radical
- 力 · 19
- Strokes
- 5 · Unihan
- Residual
- 3
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
5 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 务
Character connections
1 catalogue records include this shape in their first retained IDS. Graphical containment does not imply shared etymology.
History & distinctions
Related forms
務
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- wù
- kCantonese
- mou6
- kDefinition
- affairs, business; must, should
- kTotalStrokes
- 5
- kRSUnicode
- 19.3
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+52D9
- kTGH
- 2013:297
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- wù 1224.070
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- wù 389.250
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- wu(473) wù(445)