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U+5A25, 娥
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A25

[U+5A24]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5A26]

Translingual

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Han character

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

Derived characters

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References

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

Chinese

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trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋaːl): semantic (woman) + phonetic (OC *ŋaːlʔ)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (31)
Final () (94)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter nga
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋɑ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋɑ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋa/
Li
Rong
/ŋɑ/
Wang
Li
/ŋɑ/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ŋɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
é
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ngo4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 13031
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋaːl/

Definitions

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  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) good; beautiful
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) beautiful woman
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, Chinese mythology) short for 娥皇 (Éhuáng, “Ehuang”)
  4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, Chinese mythology) short for 嫦娥 (Cháng'é, “Chang'e, the Chinese goddess of the moon”)
  5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) eyebrow
  6. a surname

Usage notes

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This character is now chiefly used as female personal names.

Compounds

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References

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  • ”, 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–
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 59.

Japanese

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

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  • Go-on: (ga)
  • Kan-on: (ga)
  • Kun: みめよい (mimeyoi, 娥い)

Korean

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Hanja

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(a) (hangeul , revised a, McCune–Reischauer a)

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: nga

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