舞

Translingual

Han character

舞 (Kangxi radical 136, 舛+8, 14 strokes in Chinese, 15 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 人廿弓戈手 (OTNIQ), four-corner 8025₁, composition ⿱⿳𠂉卌一舛)

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		舞
simp. #		舞
alternative forms		午 second round simplified

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 舞
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (無) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
墲	*m̥ʰaː, *maː, *ma
橅	*maː
膴	*hmaː, *ma, *maʔ
幠	*hmaː
鄦	*hmaʔ
撫	*m̥ʰaʔ
無	*ma
瞴	*ma, *maʔ
蕪	*ma
璑	*ma
鷡	*ma
譕	*ma
憮	*ma, *maʔ
舞	*maʔ
廡	*maʔ
嫵	*maʔ
甒	*maʔ
潕	*maʔ
儛	*maʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *maʔ) : phonetic 無 (OC *ma) + semantic 舛 (“steps”). A specific character for the dance sense of 無／无. See 無／无 for more.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 舞

1. dance
2. to dance
3. to wield; to brandish

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Japanese

Kanji

舞

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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

Readings

• Go-on: む (mu)
• Kan-on: ぶ (bu, Jōyō)
• Kun: まう (mau, 舞う, Jōyō); まい (mai, 舞, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 舞楽
• 舞台
• 舞踊
• 舞妓
• 舞姫
• 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
• 舞い戻る
• 舞衣
• 舞踏(ぶとう) (butō): butoh

 

Noun

舞(まい) • (mai) 

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

See also

• 踊り

Proper noun

舞(まい) or 舞(proper) • (mai or proper) [[Category:Japanese
|まい]]

1. a female given name

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 舞 (vũ, vụ, vỗ, thủy)

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