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 (radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女月月口 (VBBR), four-corner 47427, composition ⿰女咼)

References
  • KangXi: page 267, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6533
  • Dae Jaweon: page 535, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: 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, OC *kroːl, *kʷroːl) : semantic 女 (“female”) + phonetic 咼 (OC *kʰʷroːl).

Pronunciation
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
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/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kwai/ /kwa/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 guā guā
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

  1. a goddess, the mythological sister and successor to Fu Xi
  2. Used in 女娲.

Compounds
  • 女媧補天／女媧补天

Japanese

Kanji
媧

(uncommon “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 (oa)

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