无

See also: 無 and 天

无	U+65E0, 无 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-65E0

← 旟
[U+65DF]

CJK Unified Ideographs

旡 →
[U+65E1]

⽆	U+2F46, ⽆ KANGXI RADICAL NOT

← ⽅
[U+2F45]

Kangxi Radicals

⽇ →
[U+2F47]

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Han character

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Radical 71 无

无 (Kangxi radical 71, 无+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 一大山 (MKU), four-corner 1041₂, composition ⿱一尢)

Kangxi radical #71, ⽆.

Usage notes

All characters sorted under this radical are actually derived from 旡.

Derived characters

呒, 𪢸, 妩, 𭘓, 怃, 抚, 𣲘, 𬂠, 𭴊, 䥻, 庑, 𫁲, 芜 (Contains simplified component of 無)
𩇳, 𡯊, 𡕠, 𪸓, 𮬫, 𡆶

Related characters

無 (Orthodox traditional form of 无)

Descendants

ん (Hiragana character derived from man'yōgana)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 485, character 23
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13716
Dae Jaweon: page 847, character 26
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1147, character 12
Unihan data for U+65E0

Chinese

Wikipedia has articles on:

无部 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
Radical 71 (English)

Glyph origin

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

One of the three characters (無, 无, 亡) that have historically been used to represent the word "no, not any". First attested in the Warring States period; used interchangeably with 無 until the Tang dynasty. Readopted by the PRC in 1956.

The origin of this character is unknown. Probably an ancient variant form of either 元 (yuán), 天 (tiān) or 堯／尧 (yáo). This character must not be confused with 旡.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 无 – see 無 (“to not have something; there is not ...; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant form of 無).
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

无部

Wikipedia ^ja

Kanji

无

(Hyōgai kanji)

Alternative form of 無 (“nothing; nothingness”).

Readings

Go-on: む (mu)
Kan-on: ぶ (bu)
Kun: ない (nai, 无い)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
无
む Hyōgai
goon

For pronunciation and definitions of 无 – see the following entry.

【無む】4

[noun] nothing, nothingness

[noun] (Buddhism) mu; the null set: neither yes nor no (in response to a koan or other question that mistakenly assumes an affirmative or negative answer).

[prefix] non-, un-

(This term, 无, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

无 (eum 무 (mu))

Alternative form of 無

References

Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea (대한민국 대법원, Daehanmin'guk Daebeobwon) (2018). Table of hanja for personal names (인명용 한자표 / 人名用漢字表, Inmyeong-yong hanja-pyo). [1]