■ radical
wú
no
How it’s built
Originally a pictograph of a person (大) dancing with ornamental leather hides (革) hanging from his arms, conveying the meaning "dance". Later, two feet (舛) were added to the bottom of the character to form 舞 (dance), and 無 was borrowed for its sound to represent the meaning "not".
Through the ages
Appears in
Characters that use 無 as a component, most common first.