wā
variant of 窪|洼[wā]
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 圭 represents the sound. Simplified form of 窪.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3226th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+6D3C |
Shuowen | “洼,深池也。从水,圭聲。” |
Sources
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