唔 · wú
hold in mouth; bite; (Cant.) not, negation
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
hold in mouth; bite; (Cant.) not, negation
- Mandarin
- wú
- Cantonese
- m4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 唔 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 오
- KS X 1002 (1) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5514
- Radical
- 口 · 30
- Strokes
- 10 · Unihan
- Residual
- 7
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
10 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 唔
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 吾 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 吾聲
Line 1052 · ⿰口吾 · 吾聲
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
Sentence context · 2 matches
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Source, contributors & licenses
Cantonese: Tatoeba #385677 · Original contributor: nickyeow · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log
English: Tatoeba #3630174 · Original contributor: sarefo · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- wú
- kCantonese
- m4
- kDefinition
- hold in mouth; bite; (Cant.) not, negation
- kTotalStrokes
- 10
- kRSUnicode
- 30.7
- kTGH
- 2013:4500
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- wù,wú,ńg,ḿ 10627.020
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- ń 0811.011 · ńg 0826.011 · wú 1218.070
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- wú 388.160
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- wú粵ng4 m̀粵m4