瓦

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

瓦 (radical 98 瓦+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 一女弓戈 (MVNI), four-corner 1071₇)

1. tile
2. earthenware pottery

References

• KangXi: page 747, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21438
• Dae Jaweon: page 1156, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1421, character 3
• Unihan data for U+74E6

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		瓦

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wǎ, wà (wa³, wa⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄚˇ, ㄨㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngaa⁵
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): ngá
• Min Nan (POJ): hiā / uá

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: wǎ
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄚˇ
    • Wade-Giles: wa³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woa
    • IPA ^(key): /u̯a̠²¹⁴/

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  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: wà
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄚˋ
    • Wade-Giles: wa⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wah
    • IPA ^(key): /u̯a̠⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngaa⁵
    • Yale: ngáh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngaa⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /ŋɑː¹³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngá
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /ŋa³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiā / uá
    • Tâi-lô: hiā / uá
    • IPA (Taipei): /hia³³/, /ua⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hia²²/, /ua⁵³/
  • Note: hiā - vernacular, uá - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (瓦, reconstructed)
Character (瓦), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 疑 (31) Final: 麻 Division: II			Openness: Closed Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 五寡切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ŋɣuaX/	/ŋwaX/	/ŋuaX/	/ŋʷɯaX/	/ŋwaɨX/	/ŋwaX/	/ŋuaX/
Character (瓦), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 疑 (31) Final: 麻 Division: II			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 五化切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ŋɣuaH/	/ŋwaH/	/ŋuaH/	/ŋʷɯaH/	/ŋwaɨH/	/ŋwaH/	/ŋuaH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (瓦, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
瓦								wǎ								‹ ngwæX ›								/*C.ŋʷˤra[j]ʔ/								roof tile
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
瓦					12601					瓦					歌					1					瓦					/*ŋʷraːlʔ/
瓦					12603					瓦					歌					1					瓦					/*ŋʷraːls/

Compounds

• 瓦钵
• 瓦当
• 瓦刀
• 瓦房
• 瓦釜雷鸣
• 瓦工
• 瓦罐
• 瓦灰
• 瓦匠
• 瓦解
• 瓦解冰消
• 瓦蓝
• 瓦楞
• 瓦楞纸
• 瓦砾
• 瓦亮
• 瓦努阿图
• 瓦盆
• 瓦圈
• 瓦全
• 瓦舍
• 瓦斯
• 瓦特
• 瓦砚
• 瓦窑

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

瓦

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: が (ga)
• Kun: かわら (kawara), グラム (guramu)

Compounds

• 瓦解
• 瓦礫

Noun

瓦 (hiragana かわら, romaji kawara)

1. roof tiles

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Korean

Hanja

瓦 (wa) (hangeul 와, revised wa, McCune-Reischauer wa, Yale wa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

瓦 (ngõa, ngói, ngoa)

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