字の旅3,000 years in three forms
Bronze · Western ZhouWestern Zhou · c. 1000 BCE戈冬方鼎 (西周中期)
Bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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毋
毋 not, mother
なかれ nakare
4 strokesRadical of 3 kanjiPart of 4
Your ink in 毋0% painted · 0 of 3 familiar
Origin · sourced
In the oracle bone script, 母 (“mother”) was borrowed to represent this character. It was later specialized to distinguish it from “mother”, replacing the two dots with one stroke.
Source: Wiktionary, 毋 (rev. 94432299), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Stop! A strong line is drawn through the center of this character, telling you to halt or cease. While it looks like a mother, that extra stroke turns it into a command of prohibition. When you see this radical, think of a boundary that cannot be crossed or an action that must not be taken. It’s the radical of limits and caution.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates prohibition, negation ("do not"), or related concepts of maternal care and the boundaries within a family.
一覧
Every kanji with 毋 as its radical
Most used first