務

See also: 务

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 敄 + semantic 力 (“strength”)

Han character

務 (radical 19 力+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 弓竹竹水尸 (NHHES), 弓竹人大尸 (NHOKS), four-corner 1822₇, composition ⿰矛务)

1. affairs, business
2. must, should

Derived characters

• 霧

References

• KangXi: page 148, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2394
• Dae Jaweon: page 334, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2765, character 9
• Unihan data for U+52D9

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Chinese

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trad.		務
simp.		务

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wù, shēng (wu⁴, sheng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˋ, ㄕㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: wù
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: wu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuh
    • IPA ^(key): /u⁵¹/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄥ
    • Wade-Giles: shêng¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheng
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mou⁶
    • Yale: mouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /mou̯²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (務, reconstructed)
Character (務), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 虞 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 亡遇切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/mɨoH/	/mi̯uH/	/mioH/	/mioH/	/muə̆H/	/mĭuH/	/mioH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (務, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
務								wù								‹ mjuH ›								/*m(r)o-s/								exert oneself
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
務					8849					矛					竇					0					務					/*moɡs/

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Japanese

Kanji

務

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: む (mu)
• Kan’on: ぶ (bu)
• Kun: つとめる (tsutomeru), つとめ (tsutome)

Compounds

役務 (やくむ, yakumu) 外務員 (がいむいん, gaimuin) 外務省 (がいむしょう, gaimushō) 義務 (ぎむ, gimu) 教務 (きょうむ, kyōmu) 業務 (ぎょうむ, gyōmu) 勤務 (きんむ, kinmu) 公務 (こうむ, kōmu) 公務員 (こうむいん, kōmuin) 校務員 (こうむいん, kōmuin) 債務 (さいむ, saimu)

財務 (ざいむ, zaimu) 財務省 (ざいむしょう, zaimushō) 雑務 (ざつむ, zatsumu) 残務 (ざんむ, zanmu) 事務 (じむ, jimu) 実務 (じつむ, jitsumu) 職務 (しょくむ, shokumu) 庶務 (しょむ, shomu) 政務 (せいむ, seimu) 責務 (せきむ, sekimu) 総務 (そうむ, sōmu)

総務省 (そうむしょう, sōmushō) 担務 (たんむ, tanmu) 内務省 (ないむしょう, naimushō) 任務 (にんむ, ninmu) 服務 (ふくむ, fukumu) 法務 (ほうむ, hōmu) 用務 (ようむ, yōmu) 用務員 (ようむいん, yōmuin) 労務 (ろうむ, rōmu)

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Korean

Hanja

務 (mu) (hangeul 무, revised mu, McCune-Reischauer mu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

務 (vụ, kiết)

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