(wù) - affairs, task, business (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
wùTraditional: 务
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Translation
affairs, task, business (bound morpheme)
Word origin
The simplified form of 務; the 力 (lì, strength) component points to effort and exertion, giving the sense of affairs, duty or task that must be attended to.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 力 (strength) component, from the fuller form 務 (wù)
Stroke order
务
Examples
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This is an important task.
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He completed the task.
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I have many tasks to do.
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He handles affairs at the foreign ministry.
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Mum does all the housework.
务 (wù) is a bound morpheme meaning affairs or duty; it appears in 任务 (rènwu), task, and 服务 (fúwù), service.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 务.
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