務

務 (Kangxi radical 19, 力+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 弓竹竹水尸 (NHHES) or 弓竹人大尸 (NHOKS), four-corner 1822₇, composition ⿰矛务)

• 𥊦 奦 㜈 熃 䥐 䳱 蓩 霧

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 148, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2394
• Dae Jaweon: page 334, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2765, character 9
• Unihan data for U+52D9

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *moɡs): phonetic 敄 (OC *moʔ, *mos) + semantic 力 (“strength”).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mow (“to work; to move”) (STEDT). Cognate with 懋 (OC *mus, “to strive”), Garo mo (“to move”), Jingpho mu ⪤ ə mu (“work; labor”), Burmese မူ (mu, “to pursue some course of action; to act”), အမှု (a.hmu., “lawsuit”).

務

1. to be engaged in; to be devoted to

   服務／服务  ―  fúwù  ―  service

2. to seek; to pursue
3. business; affairs
4. must; should; be sure to
5. 26th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "endeavor" (𝌟)
6. a surname

務

1. (Eastern Min) alternative form of 有 (“to have”)

• “務”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• (Cantonese) 粵音資料集叢

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. task, duties

• Go-on: む (mu, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ぶ (bu)
• Kun: つとめる (tsutomeru, 務める, Jōyō)、つとまる (tsutomaru, 務まる, Jōyō)、まつりごと (matsurigoto, 務)
• Nanori: つかさ (tsukasa, 務)

• (Tokyo) つとむ [tsùtómú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [t͡sɨto̞mɯ̟]

務(つとむ) • (Tsutomu) 

1. a male given name

務 (eumhun 힘쓸 무 (himsseul mu))

1. hanja form^? of 무 (“to be engaged in; to be devoted to”)

• 의무 (義務, uimu, “duty; obligation”)
• 임무 (任務, immu, “duty”)
• 복무 (服務, bongmu, “service”)
• 공무원 (公務員, gongmuwon, “civil servant; public servant”)

務: Hán Việt readings: vụ^[1]
務: Nôm readings: mùa^[2], múa^[3]

1. chữ Hán form of vụ (“case, affair”)
2. chữ Nôm form of vụ, mùa (“season”)

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