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媧
媧
See also: 娲
Translingual
Han character
媧 (radical 38 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女月月口 (VBBR), four-corner 47427, composition ⿰女咼)
- a goddess, the mythological sister and successor to Fu Xi
References
- KangXi: page 267, character 28
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6533
- Dae Jaweon: page 535, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1059, character 4
- Unihan data for U+5AA7
Chinese
| trad. | 媧 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 娲 | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (冎) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 碢 | *l'oːl |
| 腡 | *ɡ·roːl, *kʷroːl |
| 過 | *kloːl, *kloːls |
| 渦 | *kloːl, *qloːl |
| 鍋 | *kloːl |
| 楇 | *kloːl, *ɡloːls |
| 瘑 | *kloːl |
| 緺 | *koːl, *kroːl, *kʷroːl |
| 堝 | *kloːl |
| 濄 | *kloːl, *qloːl |
| 鐹 | *kloːlʔ, *kloːls |
| 薖 | *kʰloːl |
| 簻 | *kʰloːl, *kr'oːl |
| 禍 | *ɡloːlʔ |
| 窩 | *qloːl |
| 萵 | *qloːl |
| 檛 | *kr'oːl |
| 膼 | *kr'oːl |
| 蝸 | *kroːl, *kʷroːl |
| 媧 | *kroːl, *kʷroːl |
| 騧 | *kroːl, *kʷroːl |
| 冎 | *kroːlʔ |
| 剮 | *kroːlʔ |
| 諣 | *qʰroːls, *qʰʷroːls |
| 歄 | *kʷroːl |
| 咼 | *kʰʷroːl |
| 喎 | *kʰʷroːl |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kroːl, *kʷroːl) : semantic 女 (“female”) + phonetic 咼 (OC *kʰʷroːl).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄨㄚ
- Wade-Giles: wa1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ua
- IPA (key): /u̯a̠⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: wo1, gwaa1
- Yale: wō, gwā
- Cantonese Pinyin: wo1, gwaa1
- IPA (key): /wɔː⁵⁵/, /kʷɑː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o
- Tâi-lô: o
- Phofsit Daibuun: oy
- IPA (Xiamen): /ɤ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ɤ³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɤ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /o⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɤ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 媧 | 媧 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 佳 (32) | 麻 (99) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed |
| Division (等) | II | II |
| Fanqie | 古娃切 | 古華切 |
| Reconstructions | ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/kˠuɛ/ | /kˠua/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/kʷᵚæ/ | /kʷᵚa/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kuæi/ | /kua/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/kwaɨj/ | /kwaɨ/ |
| Li Rong |
/kuɛ/ | /kua/ |
| Wang Li |
/kwai/ | /kwa/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/kwai/ | /kwa/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
guā | guā |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 媧 | 媧 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 4385 | 4391 |
| Phonetic component |
冎 | 冎 |
| Rime group |
歌 | 歌 |
| Rime subdivision |
3 | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
瓜 | |
| Old Chinese |
/*kroːl/ | /*kʷroːl/ |
Definitions
媧
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Compounds
- 女媧 (Nǚwā)
Japanese
Kanji
媧
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
媧 • (wae, gwa) (hangeul 왜, 과, revised wae, gwa, McCune-Reischauer wae, kwa)
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Vietnamese
Han character
媧 (oa)
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