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Translingual [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Ideogram (指事):  +  (steps) – originally a dancer holding two dangling animal skins, roughly + + , with dancing steps 舛 below – see 無#Etymology for earlier forms. Top now simplified to 無, and this character is in fact the origin of 無.

Han character [edit]

(radical 136 +8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 人廿弓戈手 (OTNIQ), four-corner 80251)

  1. dance, posture, prance
  2. brandish

Derived characters [edit]

Related characters [edit]

References [edit]

  • KangXi: page 1008, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30342
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1465, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 865, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+821E

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(jyutping mou5, Yale mou5)


Japanese [edit]

Noun [edit]

(hiragana まい, romaji mai)

  1. a type of traditional Japanese dance consisting of simple and quiet movements

See also [edit]

Proper noun [edit]

(hiragana まい, romaji Mai)

  1. A female given name

Kanji [edit]

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings [edit]

Compounds [edit]


Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

(hangeul , revised mu, McCune-Reischauer mu, Yale mu)


Mandarin [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(pinyin (wu3), Wade-Giles wu3)

Compounds [edit]


Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(, vụ, vỗ)