无 · wú
negative, no, not; Kangxi radical 71
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
negative, no, not; Kangxi radical 71
- Mandarin
- wú
- Cantonese
- mou4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 无 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
Kun’yomi · hiragana
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.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 무
- KS X 1001 (0) · 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+65E0
- Radical
- 无 · 71
- Strokes
- 4 · Unihan
- Residual
- 0
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
4 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 无
Character connections
Sentence context · 2 matches
你无法证明。
Source, contributors & licenses
Mandarin: Tatoeba #402873 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · Text editors: GlossaMatik · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #402870 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: CM
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
無
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- mju · 武夫 反切 · #252
- Middle Chinese
- mu · 莫胡 反切 · #278
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 2148 · mju = 遇合三平虞明 · mu = 遇開一平模明
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- wú
- kCantonese
- mou4
- kDefinition
- negative, no, not; Kangxi radical 71
- kTotalStrokes
- 4
- kRSUnicode
- 71.0
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+65E0 U+7121
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+65E0
- kTGH
- 2013:81
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- mó 0799.060 · wú 1212.050
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- mó 255.110 · wú 388.100
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- wú(1997)
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 武夫 莫胡
- Kangxi positions
- 0485.230
- Guangyun positions
- 073.14 080.45
- GSR references
- 0106a
- Cangjie
- MKU
- Four-corner
- 1041.0