漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
無: nothingness, none
Also: ain't, nothing, nil, not
N3 (our estimate)12 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
灬 carries the meaning · 丿 and 一 are drawn in
12 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
ムmu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 無料むりょうfree of charge
- 無職むしょくunemployed
- 無理なむりなimpossible
- 無神経なむしんけいなinsensitive
- 無意味なむいみなnonsense
- 無視するむしするdisregard, ignore
ブbu · on'yomi
- 無事ぶじsafety
- 無難なぶなんなsecure, safe
- 無礼なぶれいなrude
ないnai · kun'yomi · on its own
- 無くすなくすlose
- 無いないno, not
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
A person dancing with ox tails held in both hands to pray for rain.
Source: Wiktionary, 無 (rev. 93737662), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“These four dots are flames under a cooking pot! When you see 灬 at the bottom of a kanji, imagine a fire heating something from below.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read ム
8 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSimplified 无 · traditional, as in Japanese · wú
Japan keeps the traditional form 無; mainland China simplifies it to 无.
- Simplified
- 无 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 無 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin wú most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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