娥

娥 U+5A25, 娥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A25 ← 娤 [U+5A24] CJK Unified Ideographs 娦 → [U+5A26]

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 𠹷, 𫶏, 𦶥, 𬷭

References

• 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

trad.		娥
simp. #		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

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): é (e²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngo⁴
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): ngò

  (Hailu, HRS): ngo

• Eastern Min (BUC): ngò̤
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gor²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ngô͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ngo⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: é
    • Zhuyin: ㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: é
    • Wade–Giles: o²
    • Yale: é
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: er
    • Palladius: э (e)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ngo⁴
    • Yale: ngòh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngo⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɔː²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngò
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngo^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngo²
    • Sinological IPA: /ŋo¹¹/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngo
    • Sinological IPA: /ŋo⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ngò̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋo⁵³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gor²
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: gó̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɒ¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gor²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɒ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ngô͘
    • Tâi-lô: ngôo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ngoo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ŋɔ̃²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ŋɔ̃²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ŋɔ̃¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ŋɔ̃²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ŋɔ̃²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ngo⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ngô
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋo⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: nga

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
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

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːl/

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

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

This character is now chiefly used as female personal names.

Compounds

• 姮娥 (Héng'é)
• 娥妝 / 娥妆
• 娥姣
• 娥娥
• 娙娥 / 𫰛娥
• 娥皇 (Éhuáng)
• 娥眉 (éméi)
• 娥輪 / 娥轮
• 嫦娥 (Cháng'é)
• 嫦娥奔月
• 嬌娥 / 娇娥 (jiāo'é)
• 宮娥 / 宫娥
• 常娥 (Cháng'é)
• 曹娥江 (Cáo'éjiāng)
• 曹娥碑
• 月娥
• 月裡嫦娥 / 月里嫦娥
• 湘娥
• 竇娥冤 / 窦娥冤
• 粉娥
• 素娥 (Sù'é)
• 羲娥
• 青娥 (qīng'é)
• 鬧娥 / 闹娥

References

• “娥”, 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), “娥”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 59.

Japanese

Kanji

娥

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

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

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

娥: Hán Nôm readings: nga

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