Radical 80

毋 毌 母
79 ⽎ ◄	80	► ⽐ 81
Pinyin :	wú (= mother)
Zhuyin :	ㄇ ㄨ
Hiragana :	な か れ nakare
Kanji :	母 haha ​​(= mother) nakare (= not)
Hangul :	말
Sinocorean :	무 mu (= mother)
Codepoint :	U + 6BCB 6BCC 6BCD
Stroke sequence :

Radical 80 with the meaning " mother ", " not " is one of 34 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese writing that are written with four strokes.

With 5 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary, there are very few characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

The seal- form shows a woman (= 女 nǚ) to which a horizontal line is added: 母. This variant means "mother". The two dots symbolize the breasts of a nursing mother. These points later became a vertical line. 毋 and 母 were originally a sign. Only the bronze script made the 母, before later both forms were used again: 毋 in the sense of “not, forbidden” and 母 as “mother”.

每 (mei = everyone, everyone, everyone) in its original form carried the grass head (艹; radical 140 ) and meant lush grass. It was later taken as a sign of the word "everyone" because of its identical pronunciation. In the chancellery script of the Han dynasty , 每 (mei) was written with the treasure lid (亠; radical 8 ), and the following normal script (楷书 kaishu) made it into today's form 每.

In quite a few composite symbols, 每 (mei) functions as a sound carrier, for example in 梅 (mei = apricot) or 霉 (mei = mold). In 悔 (hui = regret) 每 (mei) has an extended sound carrier function. 母 (mu) itself also occurs as a sound carrier as in 拇 (in: 拇指 muzhi = thumb) or 姆 (in 保姆 baomu = nanny).

毒 (you = poison) originally carried the grass head (艹) and underneath a component made up of 土 above and 母 (mu) below. The meaning of this sign was poisonous plant. 母 (mu) is only a general component here.

Character combinations ruled by radical 80

Strokes	character
+ 00	毋 毌
+ 01	母
+ 02	毎
+ 03	每 毐
+ 04	毑 毒
+ 09	毓

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 80 is coded under the code point number 12.111 (U + 2F4F).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 86 .
• Cecilia Lindqvist : A world of signs - about the Chinese and their writing . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-426-26482-X , p. 42 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 80  - Graphic representations of Radikal 80

Wiktionary: 母  - Explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 80 on page 88