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舞

舞

Translingual

Han character

舞 (radical 136 舛+8, in Chinese 14 strokes, in Japanese 15 strokes, cangjie input 人廿弓戈手 (OTNIQ), four-corner 80251, composition ⿱⿳𠂉卌一舛)

Derived characters

Related characters

References

  • KangXi: page 1008, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30342
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1465, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 865, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+821E

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 舞

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 舞
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (無) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
墲 *m̥ʰaː, *maː, *ma
橅 *maː
膴 *hmaː, *ma, *maʔ
幠 *hmaː
鄦 *hmaʔ
撫 *m̥ʰaʔ
無 *ma
瞴 *ma, *maʔ
蕪 *ma
璑 *ma
鷡 *ma
譕 *ma
憮 *ma, *maʔ
舞 *maʔ
廡 *maʔ
嫵 *maʔ
甒 *maʔ
潕 *maʔ
儛 *maʔ

Ideogram (指事) : 無 + 舛 ‎(“steps”) – originally a dancer holding two dangling animal skins, roughly 革 + 大 + 革, with dancing steps 舛 below – see 無#Etymology for earlier forms. Top now simplified to 無, and this character is in fact the origin of 無.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 舞
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 文甫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mɨoX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mioX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mioX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /muə̆X/
Li
Rong		 /mioX/
Wang
Li		 /mĭuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mi̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wǔ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 舞
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mjuX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*k.m(r)aʔ/
English dance (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 舞
Reading # 1/1
No. 13126
Phonetic
component		 無
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 武
Old
Chinese		 /*maʔ/

Definitions

舞

  1. dance
  2. to dance
  3. to wield; to brandish

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

舞

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. dance
  2. flit
  3. circle
  4. wheel

Readings

Compounds

Noun

舞 ‎(hiragana まい, romaji mai)

  1. a type of traditional Japanese dance consisting of simple and quiet movements

See also

Proper noun

舞 ‎(hiragana まい, romaji Mai)

  1. A female given name

Korean

Hanja

舞 • ‎(mu) (hangeul 무, revised mu, McCune-Reischauer mu, Yale mu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

舞 (vũ, vụ, vỗ, thủy)

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