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Where does “無” come from?

無 (Chinese) comes from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ma — no, not, negative, not have, none.

無 (Chinese): not

Definitions

  1. not

Ancestry of “無”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Sino-Tibetanmano, not, negative, not have, none
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