媧

See also: 娲

媧	U+5AA7, 媧 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AA7

← 媦
[U+5AA6]

CJK Unified Ideographs

媨 →
[U+5AA8]

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

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 / o͘ / oa / koa

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: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o
  - Tâi-lô: o
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oy
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /o⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɤ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o͘
  - Tâi-lô: oo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: of
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɔ³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oa
  - Tâi-lô: ua
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oaf
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ua⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ua³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koa
  - Tâi-lô: kua
  - Phofsit Daibuun: koaf
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /kua⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kua³³/

Note:

o/o͘ — vernacular;
oa — literary;
koa — reconstructed from Middle Chinese.

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/
Bernhard 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

媧

the goddess of creation; the mythological sister and successor to Fu Xi
Used in 女媧／女娲 (Nǚwā).

Compounds

女媧 / 女娲 (Nǚwā)
女媧補天 / 女娲补天
媧皇 / 娲皇 (Wāhuáng)

Japanese

Kanji

媧

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): かい (kai)、け (ke)、か (ka)

Korean

Hanja

媧 • (wae, gwa) (hangeul 왜, 과, revised wae, gwa, McCune–Reischauer wae, kwa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

媧: Hán Nôm readings: oa

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