Mu (negative)
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 無 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 无 | ||||||||||||||
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| Hangul | 무 | ||||||||||||||
| Hanja | 無 | ||||||||||||||
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| Kanji | 無 | ||||||||||||||
| Hiragana | む | ||||||||||||||
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In the Sinosphere, the word 無, realized in Japanese and Korean as mu and in Standard Chinese as wu, meaning 'to lack' or 'without', is a key term in the vocabulary of various East Asian philosophical and religious traditions, such as Buddhism and Taoism.