Radical 80 or radical do not () meaning "
mother" or "
do not" is one of the 34
Kangxi radical
The 214 Kangxi radicals (), also known as the Zihui radicals, form a system of radicals () of Chinese characters.
The radicals are numbered in stroke count order. They are the most popular system of radicals for dictionaries that order Traditi ...
s (214 radicals in total) composed of 4
strokes. Chinese characters with a similar component "mother" may also be classified under this radical.
In the ''
Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 16 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this
radical
Radical may refer to:
Politics and ideology Politics
*Radical politics, the political intent of fundamental societal change
*Radicalism (historical), the Radical Movement that began in late 18th century Britain and spread to continental Europe and ...
.
is also the 99th indexing component in the ''
Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by
Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in
mainland China.
In the
Hokkien language, is often used to represent the negation particle , spelled ''m̄'' in
Peh-oe-ji and
Tai-lo.
Evolution
File:毋-bronze.svg, Bronze script
Chinese bronze inscriptions, also commonly referred to as bronze script or bronzeware script, are writing in a variety of Chinese scripts on ritual bronzes such as ''zhōng'' bells and '' dǐng'' tripodal cauldrons from the Shang dynasty (2nd mi ...
character
File:毋-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character
File:毋-seal.svg, Small seal script
The small seal script (), or Qin script (, ''Qínzhuàn''), is an archaic form of Chinese calligraphy. It was standardized and promulgated as a national standard by the government of Qin Shi Huang, the founder of the Chinese Qin dynasty.
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character
Derived characters
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External links
Unihan Database - U+6BCB
{{Simplified Chinese radicals
080
099
99 may refer to:
* 99 (number), the natural number following 98 and preceding 100
* one of the years 99 BC, AD 99, 1999, 2099, etc.
Art, entertainment, and media
* '' The 99'', a comic series based on Islamic culture
Film, television and radio ...