Mu (negative)

Mu
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	無
Simplified Chinese	无
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin wú Yue: Cantonese Jyutping mou4 Southern Min Hokkien POJ bô
Korean name
Hangul	무
Hanja	無
Transcriptions Revised Romanization mu
Japanese name
Kanji	無
Hiragana	む
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn mu

Chinese traditional character for Wu

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.