舞

Translingual

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 舞
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

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, in Chinese 14 strokes, in Japanese 15 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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Chinese

simp. and trad.		舞

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wǔ (wu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁵
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): vú
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): bú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: wǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˇ
    • Wade-Giles: wu³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuu
    • IPA ^(key): /u²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mou⁵
    • Yale: móuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /mou̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Kaohsiung)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vú
    • Hakka Romanization System: vu`
    • IPA: /vu³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bú
    • Tâi-lô: bú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: buo
    • IPA (Taipei): /bu⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bu⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (舞, reconstructed)
Character (舞), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 虞 (24) Tone: Rising (X)							Openness: Closed Division: III Fanqie: 文甫切							Expected Mandarin reflex: wǔ
Zhengzhang Shangfang			Pan Wuyun			Shao Rongfen			Edwin Pulleyblank			Li Rong			Wang Li			Bernard Karlgren
/mɨoX/			/mioX/			/mioX/			/muə̆X/			/mioX/			/mĭuX/			/mi̯uX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (舞, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
舞								wǔ								‹ mjuX ›								/*k.m(r)aʔ/								dance (v.)
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
舞					13126					無					魚					0					武					/*maʔ/

Definitions

舞

1. dance

Compounds

• 舞伴
• 舞伴兒／舞伴儿
• 舞劇／舞剧
• 舞動／舞动 (wǔdòng)
• 舞場／舞场
• 舞壇／舞坛
• 舞女
• 舞姿

• 舞客
• 舞廳／舞厅 (wǔtīng)
• 舞弄
• 舞弊
• 舞技
• 舞文弄墨
• 舞曲
• 舞會／舞会 (wǔhuì)

• 舞榭歌台
• 舞步
• 舞池 (wǔchí)
• 舞美
• 舞臺／舞台 (wǔtái)
• 舞藝／舞艺
• 舞蹈 (wǔdǎo)
• 舞迷

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Japanese

Kanji

舞

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. dance
2. flit
3. circle
4. wheel

Readings

• Goon: む (mu)
• Kan’on: ぶ (bu)
• Kun: まう (mau), まい (mai)

Compounds

Terms derived from 舞

• 小舞壁 (こまいかべ) ‎(komaikabe): traditional wattle and daub wall made of coarse mud plaster and straw
• 歌舞伎 (かぶき) ‎(kabuki): kabuki

• 舞台
• 舞妓

• 舞姫
• 舞い戻る

• 舞楽
• 舞衣

• 舞踊
• 舞踏 (ぶとう) ‎(butō): butoh

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

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Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

舞 (vũ, vụ, vỗ, thủy)

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