媧

See also: 娲

Translingual

Han character

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

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 267, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6533
• Dae Jaweon: page 535, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1059, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5AA7

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Chinese

trad.		媧
simp.		娲

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (冎) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
碢	*l'oːl
腡	*ɡ·roːl, *kʷroːl
過	*kloːl, *kloːls
渦	*kloːl, *qloːl
鍋	*kloːl
楇	*kloːl, *ɡloːls
瘑	*kloːl
緺	*koːl, *kroːl, *kʷroːl
堝	*kloːl
濄	*kloːl, *qloːl
鐹	*kloːlʔ, *kloːls
薖	*kʰloːl
簻	*kʰloːl, *kr'oːl
禍	*ɡloːlʔ
窩	*qloːl
萵	*qloːl
檛	*kr'oːl
膼	*kr'oːl
蝸	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
媧	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
騧	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
冎	*kroːlʔ
剮	*kroːlʔ
諣	*qʰroːls, *qʰʷroːls
歄	*kʷroːl
咼	*kʰʷroːl
喎	*kʰʷroːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kroːl, *kʷroːl) : semantic 女 (“female”) + phonetic 咼 (OC *kʰʷroːl).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wā (wa¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wo¹ / gwaa¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): o

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wā
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wa
    • Wade–Giles: wa¹
    • Yale: wā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ua
    • Palladius: ва (va)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wo¹ / gwaa¹
    • Yale: wō / gwā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wo¹ / gwaa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wo¹ / gua¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔː⁵⁵/, /kʷaː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o
    • Tâi-lô: o
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oy
    • IPA (Xiamen): /o⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /o³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /o⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /o⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɤ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: kwea, kwae

Rime
Character	媧	媧
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	佳 (32)	麻 (99)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	II	II
Fanqie	古娃切	古華切
Baxter	kwea	kwae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠuɛ/	/kˠua/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷᵚæ/	/kʷᵚa/
Shao Rongfen	/kuæi/	/kua/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwaɨj/	/kwaɨ/
Li Rong	/kuɛ/	/kua/
Wang Li	/kwai/	/kwa/
Bernard Karlgren	/kwai/	/kwa/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guā	guā
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwaai1	gwaa1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kroːl/, /*kʷroːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	媧	媧
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4385	4391
Phonetic component	冎	冎
Rime group	歌	歌
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	瓜
Old Chinese	/*kroːl/	/*kʷroːl/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 媧

1. a goddess, the mythological sister and successor to Fu Xi
2. Used in 女娲.

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Japanese

Kanji

媧

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): 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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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 媧 (oa)

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