娥

娥	U+5A25, 娥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A25

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

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

trad.		娥
simp. ^#		娥

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

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

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/

娥

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

This character is now chiefly used as female personal names.

“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.

娥

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

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娥: Hán Nôm readings: nga

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