舞

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogram (指事): 無 + 舛 (“steps”) – originally a dancer holding two dangling animal skins, roughly 革 + 大 + 革, 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

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

1. dance, posture, prance
2. brandish

Derived characters

• 無 (无)

Related characters

• 革

References

• 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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

舞 (jyutping mou5, Yale mou5)

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Japanese

Noun

舞 (hiragana まい, romaji mai)

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

See also

• 踊り

Proper noun

舞 (hiragana まい, romaji Mai)

1. A female given name

Kanji

舞 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ぶ (bu), む (mu)
• Kun: まう (mau), まい (mai)

Compounds

舞衣 舞楽 舞姫 舞台 舞踏 (ぶとう, butō, “butoh”)

舞踊 舞妓 舞い戻る 歌舞伎 (かぶき, kabuki): kabuki

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

舞 (pinyin wǔ (wu3), Wade-Giles wu³)

Compounds

• 舞伴, 舞伴儿
• 舞弊
• 舞步
• 舞场
• 舞池
• 舞蹈
• 舞动
• 舞会
• 舞技
• 舞剧
• 舞客
• 舞美
• 舞迷
• 舞弄
• 舞女
• 舞曲
• 舞台
• 舞坛
• 舞厅
• 舞文弄墨
• 舞榭歌台
• 舞艺
• 舞姿

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Vietnamese

Han character

舞 (vũ, vụ, vỗ)