# 媧

| 媧 | U+5AA7, &#23207; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AA7 |
| ← 媦 [U+5AA6] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 媨 → [U+5AA8] |

## Translingual
### Han character

媧 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女月月口 (VBBR), four-corner 4742$_7$, composition ⿰女咼)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 267, character 28
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6533
* Dae Jaweon: page 535, character 3
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1059, character 4
* Unihan data for U+5AA7

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | 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／形声, OC *kroːl, *kʷroːl) : semantic 女 (“female”) + phonetic 咼 (OC *kʰʷroːl).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): wā (wa$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄨㄚ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): wo$^1$ / gwaa$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): o / o͘ / oa / koa
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: wā
*** Zhuyin: ㄨㄚ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: wa
*** Wade–Giles: wa$^1$
*** Yale: wā
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ua
*** Palladius: ва (va)
*** Sinological IPA : /wä⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: wo$^1$ / gwaa$^1$
*** Yale: wō / gwā
*** Cantonese Pinyin: wo$^1$ / gwaa$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: wo$^1$ / gua$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /wɔː⁵⁵/, /kʷaː⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o
*** Tâi-lô: o
*** Phofsit Daibuun: oy
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /o⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɤ⁴⁴/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o͘
*** Tâi-lô: oo
*** Phofsit Daibuun: of
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /ɔ³³/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oa
*** Tâi-lô: ua
*** Phofsit Daibuun: oaf
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ua⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /ua³³/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koa
*** Tâi-lô: kua
*** Phofsit Daibuun: koaf
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /kua⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /kua³³/
* o/o͘ — vernacular;
* oa — literary;
* koa — reconstructed from Middle Chinese.
* Middle Chinese: kwea, kwae
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 |
| Baxter | kwea | kwae |
| 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 |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gwaai$^1$ | gwaa$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*kroːl/, /*kʷroːl/
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
* the goddess of creation; the mythological sister and successor to Fu Xi
* Used in 女媧／女娲 (Nǚwā).

#### Compounds

* 女媧／女娲 (Nǚwā)
* 女媧補天／女娲补天
* 媧皇／娲皇 (Wāhuáng)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(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: Hán Nôm readings: oa
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