méi, mò
not have
Original meaning:
reach into the water to grab something
Simplified form of 沒. Depicts a hand reaching in the water to grab something. The meaning later expanded to "drown", "disappear", and "not have".
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 99.9680% of movies
23rd most common character in movies
72nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+6CA1 |
Shuowen | “沒,沈也。从水,从。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.208-209
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