娥
Translingual
Han character
娥 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女竹手戈 (VHQI), four-corner 43450, composition ⿰女我)
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 | |
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simp. # | 娥 |
Glyph origin
Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *ŋaːl) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 我 (OC *ŋaːlʔ)
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄜˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: é
- Wade–Giles: o2
- Yale: é
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: er
- Palladius: э (e)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ˀɤ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: ngo4
- Yale: ngòh
- Cantonese Pinyin: ngo4
- Guangdong Romanization: ngo4
- Sinological IPA (key): /ŋɔː²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Southern Min
- Middle Chinese: nga
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːl/
Definitions
- good; beautiful
- beautiful woman
- (Chinese mythology) Short for 娥皇 (Éhuáng, “Ehuang”).
- (Chinese mythology) Short for 嫦娥 (Cháng'é, “Chang'e, the Chinese goddess of the moon”).
- † eyebrow
- a surname
Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
娥
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
娥 • (a) (hangeul 아, revised a, McCune–Reischauer a)
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Vietnamese
Han character
(deprecated template usage) 娥 (nga)
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