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U+6B66, 武
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B66

[U+6B65]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6B67]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 77, +4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 一心卜中一 (MPYLM), four-corner 13140, composition ⿹⿽ or )

Derived characters[edit]

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 575, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16273
  • Dae Jaweon: page 965, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1439, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6B66

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意会意): (blade) + (foot; to walk; to stop) – army going on an expedition. In the character , the component is written above the component.

The graphical origin of as “to stop violence” — the ultimate state of just warfare — is traditionally attributed to King Zhuang of Chu [597 BCE]:

:「。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
:「。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4th century BCE
Chǔ Zǐ yuē: “Fēi ěr suǒ zhī yě. Fú wén, zhǐ gē wéi .” [Pinyin]
Said Lord "Chǔ" (楚): “Not exactly as what you might have believed. The term itself, means: stopping ("止") the blades ("戈") thus martiality ("武").”

Linguistically, this was likely a misinterpretation, as always means “to walk” () when used as a radical, compare (), () and ().

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-mak (war, army, soldier). Cognate with Tibetan དམག (dmag, army), Burmese မက် (mak) (as in ရဲမက် (rai:mak, soldier) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007; Sagart, 2017d).

Pronunciation[edit]



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /u²¹⁴/
Harbin /u²¹³/
Tianjin /u¹³/
Jinan /u⁵⁵/
Qingdao /vu⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /u⁵³/
Xi'an /vu⁵³/
Xining /v̩⁵³/
Yinchuan /vu⁵³/
Lanzhou /vu⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /vu⁵¹/
Wuhan /u⁴²/
Chengdu /u⁵³/
Guiyang /u⁴²/
Kunming /u⁵³/
Nanjing /u²¹²/
Hefei /u²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /vu⁵³/
Pingyao /u⁵³/
Hohhot /vu⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /vu²³/
Suzhou /vu³¹/
Hangzhou /ʔu⁵³/
Wenzhou /vu³⁵/
Hui Shexian /u³⁵/
Tunxi /u³¹/
Xiang Changsha /u⁴¹/
Xiangtan /u⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /u²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /vu⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /vu³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /mou²³/
Nanning /mu²⁴/
Hong Kong /mou¹³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /bu⁵³/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /u³²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /u²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /bu⁵³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /vu²¹³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (24)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter mjuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mɨoX/
Pan
Wuyun
/mioX/
Shao
Rongfen
/mioX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/muə̆X/
Li
Rong
/mioX/
Wang
Li
/mĭuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mi̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
mou5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjuX ›
Old
Chinese
/*m(r)aʔ/
English military

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 13184
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*maʔ/

Definitions[edit]

  1. military (related to warfare, fighting)
      ―  dòng  ―  to use force (to fight, start a war, etc.)
  2. martial arts; wushu
      ―  shù  ―  martial arts
      ―    ―  to compete in a martial arts contest
  3. valiant; brave; courageous
      ―  yǒng  ―  valiant; courageous
  4. soldier; warrior
      ―  Xuán  ―  Black Turtle (lit. "Black Warrior") (one of the Four Symbols among the constellations in Chinese astronomy)
  5. footstep; footprint
  6. Classifier for half steps.
  7. (obsolete) to inherit
  8. a surname
      ―  Zétiān  ―  Wu Zetian (the only legitimate female sovereign in the history of China)

Compounds[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: () (bu)
  • Korean: 무(武) (mu)
  • Vietnamese: (), ()

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Kanji in this term

Grade: 5
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese (mjuX, military).

The goon reading of mu, so likely the initial borrowing.

Pronunciation[edit]

Affix[edit]

() (mu

  1. military, martial
Usage notes[edit]

Only found in compounds. Not as common as the bu reading.

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Kanji in this term

Grade: 5
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese (mjuX, military).

The kan'on reading of bu, so likely a re-borrowing at a later stage of Middle Chinese, or from a dialectal variation in Middle Chinese.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

() (bu

  1. courage, ferocity, valor
  2. military power, force of arms
  3. the act of carrying out military force: a battle, a war
  4. the way of carrying out military force: strategy, tactics, martial arts
  5. a military person: an officer, a soldier
  6. (obsolete) a unit of length, equivalent to half of a (bu, six (shaku), roughly six feet or 1.8 meters), roughly equivalent to one yard or 90 centimeters
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Ateji used in various names.

Proper noun[edit]

(たけし) (Takeshi

  1. a male given name

(たける) (Takeru

  1. a male given name

References[edit]

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

(eumhun 굳셀 (gutsel mu))

  1. Hanja form? of (military nobility; soldier, warrior; weaponry, weapons).
  2. Hanja form? of (courage, honor).
  3. Hanja form? of (martial arts, wushu; to demonstrate military force: strategy, tactics, martial arts).

Compounds[edit]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: ,

  1. A surname.
  2. martial arts
  3. (compounds) violence