Chinese Character Wiki

娲

wā

a goddess

Components
女 meaning component

女  Meaning component

nǚ, rǔ

  

woman

woman

呙 sound component

呙  Sound component

guō, wāi

  

chat

Evolution

娲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
娲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
娲 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
娲 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

娲 (媧) 

wā

mythological snail goddess

娲 (媧) 

Wā

surname Wa; sister of legendary emperor Fu Xi 伏羲

Most common words with 娲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

女娲

Nüwa (creator of humans in Chinese mythology)

娲

surname Wa

女娲氏

Nüwa (creator of humans in Chinese mythology)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4241st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

媧

Unicode

U+5A32


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