媧

See also: 娲

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 女 (“female”) + phonetic 咼

Han character

媧 (radical 38 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女月月口 (VBBR), four-corner 4742₇, composition ⿰女咼)

1. 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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

媧 (simplified 娲, Yale wo1)

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Japanese

Kanji

媧

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: かい (kai), け (ke), か (ka)

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Korean

Hanja

媧 (wae, gwa) (hangeul 왜, 과, revised wae, gwa, McCune-Reischauer wae, kwa)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

媧 (simplified 娲, Pinyin wā (wa1), Wade-Giles wa¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

媧 (oa)

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