wá
doll, baby
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 圭 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 娃
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
baby | ||
baby | ||
Eva (name) | ||
doll (of Western appearance) | ||
Eve (in Protestant versions of the Bible) (from Hebrew Ḥawwāh, probably via Cantonese 夏娃 {Haa6waa1}) |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 11.3247% of movies
1298th most common character in movies
1833rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+5A03 |
Shuowen | “娃，圜深目皃。或曰，吳楚之間謂好曰娃。从女，圭聲。” |
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