勿

勿 (radical 20, 勹+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 心竹竹 (PHH), four-corner 2722₀, composition ⿹勹⿰丿丿)

• 物 吻 易 昜

• 匆 匁

• KangXi: page 150, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2501
• Dae Jaweon: page 339, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 255, character 2
• Unihan data for U+52FF

Historical forms of the character 勿
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – blood on a knife; the original character of 刎 (OC *mɯnʔ, “to cut”). Phonetically borrowed for the negative particle since the time of the oracle bone script.

勿

1. (literary or formal, imperative) do not; don't

   請勿吸煙 / 请勿吸烟  ―  qǐng wù xīyān  ―  no smoking (lit. please do not smoke)

   • 己所不欲，勿施於人。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     己所不欲，勿施于人。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, circa 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Jǐ suǒ bù yù, wù shī yú rén. [Pinyin]

     What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

2. (literary or Wu) not

   齊侯欲勿許。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   齐侯欲勿许。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: Commentary of Zuo, circa 4^th century BCE

   Qí hóu yù wù xǔ. [Pinyin]

   Duke Ling of Qi wanted to not agree.

勿

1. (Min Nan) Alternative form of 莫 (“(imperative) do not; don't”).

勿

1. Only used in 卹勿.

勿 (hiragana ぶつ, rōmaji butsu)

勿 (hiragana もち, rōmaji mochi)

1. must not, do not, be not

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. negation
2. prohibition

• Go-on: もち (mochi)
• Kan-on: ぶつ (butsu)
• On: ぼつ (botsu)
• Kun: なかれ (nakare, 勿れ); なし (nashi, 勿)

• 勿体無 (もったいな)い (mottainai): too good, wasteful
• 勿論 (もちろん) (mochiron): of course, certainly
• 勿 (もっ)怪 (け)の幸 (さいわ)い (mokke no saiwai): unexpected gain, bonanza, windfall

勿 • (mul, mol) (hangeul 물, 몰, revised mul, mol, McCune–Reischauer mul, mol)

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勿 (vật, vặt, vất)

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