娥

娥	U+5A25, 娥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A25

← 娤
[U+5A24]

CJK Unified Ideographs

娦 →
[U+5A26]

Translingual

Han character

娥 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女竹手戈 (VHQI), four-corner 4345₀, composition ⿰女我)

Derived characters

𠹷𦶥

References

KangXi: page 263, character 10

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6331

Dae Jaweon: page 529, character 27

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1052, character 10

Unihan data for U+5A25

Chinese

trad.		娥
simp. ^#		娥

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (我) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
莪	*ŋaːl
哦	*ŋaːl
娥	*ŋaːl
峨	*ŋaːl
峩	*ŋaːl
鵝	*ŋaːl
俄	*ŋaːl
蛾	ŋaːl, ŋralʔ
睋	*ŋaːl
涐	*ŋaːl
誐	*ŋaːl
硪	ŋaːl, ŋaːlʔ
我	*ŋaːlʔ
騀	*ŋaːlʔ
餓	*ŋaːls
義	*ŋrals
儀	*ŋral
轙	ŋral, ŋralʔ
檥	ŋral, ŋralʔ
蟻	*ŋralʔ
艤	*ŋralʔ
礒	*ŋralʔ
羛	ŋralʔ, hŋral
議	*ŋrals
犧	*hŋral
曦	*hŋral
羲	*hŋral

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋaːl) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 我 (OC *ŋaːlʔ)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): é (e²)
(Zhuyin): ㄜˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ngo⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngò
Min Dong (BUC): ngò̤
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): ngô͘
(Teochew, Peng'im): ngo⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: é
  - Zhuyin: ㄜˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: é
  - Wade–Giles: o²
  - Yale: é
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: er
  - Palladius: э (e)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ngo⁴
  - Yale: ngòh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ngo⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: ngo⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɔː²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngò
  - Hakka Romanization System: ngoˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ngo²
  - Sinological IPA: /ŋo¹¹/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: ngò̤
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋo⁵³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ngô͘
  - Tâi-lô: ngôo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ngoo
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ŋɔ̃²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ŋɔ̃²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ŋɔ̃¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ŋɔ̃²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ŋɔ̃²³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ngo⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ngô
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋo⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: /ŋɑ/

Rime
Character	娥
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	五何切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋa/
Li Rong	/ŋɑ/
Wang Li	/ŋɑ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	é
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ngo⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	娥
Reading #	1/1
No.	13031
Phonetic component	我
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	莪
Old Chinese	/*ŋaːl/

Definitions

娥

^† good; beautiful
^† beautiful woman
^† (Chinese mythology) Short for 娥皇 (Éhuáng, “Ehuang”).
^† (Chinese mythology) Short for 嫦娥 (Cháng'é, “Chang'e, the Chinese goddess of the moon”).
^† eyebrow
a surname

Compounds

姮娥 (Héng'é)
娥姣
娥娥
娥皇 (Éhuáng)
娥眉
嫦娥 (Cháng'é)
嫦娥奔月
常娥

曹娥江 (Cáo'éjiāng)
曹娥碑
月娥
湘娥
粉娥
素娥
羲娥
青娥 (qīng'é)

娙娥／𫰛娥
娥妝／娥妆
娥輪／娥轮
嬌娥／娇娥 (jiāo'é)
宮娥／宫娥
月裡嫦娥／月里嫦娥
竇娥冤／窦娥冤
鬧娥／闹娥

Japanese

Kanji

娥

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: が (ga)
Kan-on: が (ga)
Kun: みめよい (mimeyoi, 娥い)

Korean

Hanja

娥 • (a) (hangeul 아, revised a, McCune–Reischauer a)

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Vietnamese

Han character

娥: Hán Nôm readings: nga

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