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娥

娥

Translingual

Han character

娥 (radical 38 女+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女竹手戈 (VHQI), four-corner 43450, composition ⿰女我)

  1. be beautiful
  2. good
  3. used as a surname

References

  • KangXi: page 263, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6331
  • Dae Jaweon: page 529, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1052, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5A25

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 娥

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (我) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
莪 *ŋaːl
哦 *ŋaːl
娥 *ŋaːl
峨 *ŋaːl
峩 *ŋaːl
鵝 *ŋaːl
俄 *ŋaːl
蛾 *ŋaːl, *ŋralʔ
睋 *ŋaːl
涐 *ŋaːl
誐 *ŋaːl
硪 *ŋaːl, *ŋaːlʔ
我 *ŋaːlʔ
騀 *ŋaːlʔ
餓 *ŋaːls
義 *ŋrals
儀 *ŋral
轙 *ŋral, *ŋralʔ
檥 *ŋral, *ŋralʔ
蟻 *ŋralʔ
艤 *ŋralʔ
礒 *ŋralʔ
羛 *ŋralʔ, *hŋral
議 *ŋrals
犧 *hŋral
曦 *hŋral
羲 *hŋral

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 娥
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 歌 (94)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 五何切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋɑ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋɑ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋa/
Li
Rong		 /ŋɑ/
Wang
Li		 /ŋɑ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 é
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 娥
Reading # 1/1
No. 13031
Phonetic
component		 我
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 莪
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋaːl/

Definitions

娥

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Japanese

Kanji

娥

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

娥 • ‎(a) (hangeul 아, revised a, McCune-Reischauer a)

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Vietnamese

Han character

娥 (nga)

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