Radical 71 or radical not (无部) meaning "nothing" or "negative" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

← 70 Radical 71 (U+2F46) 72 →
(U+65E0) "negative, no, not"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:wú, mó
Bopomofo:ㄨˊ
Wade–Giles:wu2 mou2
Cantonese Yale:mòuh
Jyutping:mou4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:
Japanese Kana:ム mu / ブ bu (on'yomi)
な-い na-i (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:무 mu
Names
Japanese name(s):无し/なし nashi
无/ぶ bu
无繞/むにょう munyō
既の旁/すでのつくり sudenotsukuri
Hangul:없을 eopseul
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 12 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 62nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with being its associated indexing component.

as an individual character is a variant form of . In Simplified Chinese, is used as the simplified form of .

Evolution

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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
+0 SC/variant (= -> )
+5
+7 Kangxi/KO (=既)
+9

Literature

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  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
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