wù
business
Simplified form of 務. Phonosemantic compound. 矛 represents the sound, while 攵 and 力 both represent the meaning. The traditional component 矛 was removed for simplification.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 66.1541% of movies
498th most common character in movies
245th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+52A1 |
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