# 婀

| 婀 | U+5A40, &#23104; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A40 |
| ← 娿 [U+5A3F] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 婁 → [U+5A41] |

## Translingual
### Han character

婀 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女弓中口 (VNLR), four-corner 4142$_0$, composition ⿰女阿)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 263, character 47
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6382
* Dae Jaweon: page 530, character 32
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1054, character 8
* Unihan data for U+5A40

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 砢 | *ɡ·raːlʔ |
| 柯 | *kaːl |
| 菏 | *kaːl, *ɡaːl |
| 牁 | *kaːl |
| 滒 | *kaːl |
| 哥 | *kaːl |
| 歌 | *kaːl |
| 謌 | *kaːl |
| 鴚 | *kaːl |
| 哿 | *kaːlʔ |
| 舸 | *kaːlʔ |
| 笴 | *kaːlʔ, *kaːnʔ |
| 軻 | *kʰaːl, *kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls |
| 珂 | *kʰaːl |
| 可 | *kʰaːlʔ |
| 岢 | *kʰaːlʔ |
| 坷 | *kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls |
| 蚵 | *kʰaːls, *ɡaːl |
| 呵 | *qʰaːl, *qʰaːls |
| 訶 | *qʰaːl |
| 抲 | *qʰaːl |
| 荷 | *qʰaːls, *ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ |
| 何 | *ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ |
| 河 | *ɡaːl |
| 苛 | *ɡaːl |
| 魺 | *ɡaːl |
| 袔 | *ɡaːls |
| 阿 | *qaːl |
| 妸 | *qaːl, *qaːlʔ |
| 疴 | *qaːl, *kʰraːls |
| 鈳 | *qaːl |
| 娿 | *qaːl, *qaːlʔ |
| 痾 | *qaːl |
| 跒 | *kʰraːlʔ |
| 閜 | *qʰraːlʔ |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): ē, ě (e$^1$, e$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄜ, ㄜˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): o$^2$ / o$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): o
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: ē
*** Zhuyin: ㄜ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: e
*** Wade–Giles: o$^1$
*** Yale: ē
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: e
*** Palladius: э (e)
*** Sinological IPA : /ˀɤ⁵⁵/
** (Standard Chinese, variant)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: ě
*** Zhuyin: ㄜˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: ě
*** Wade–Giles: o$^3$
*** Yale: ě
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ee
*** Palladius: э (e)
*** Sinological IPA : /ˀɤ²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: o$^2$ / o$^1$
*** Yale: ó / ō
*** Cantonese Pinyin: o$^2$ / o$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: o$^2$ / o$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɔː³⁵/, /ɔː⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o
*** Tâi-lô: o
*** Phofsit Daibuun: oy
*** IPA (Xiamen): /o⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /o³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /o⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /o⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɤ⁴⁴/
* Middle Chinese: 'aX
Rime :
| Character | 婀 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) |
| Final (韻) | 歌 (94) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 烏可切 |
| Baxter | 'aX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʔɑ$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʔɑ$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʔɑ$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʔa$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /ʔɑ$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /ɑ$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ʔɑ$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | ě |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | o$^2$ |

### Definitions

婀
* beautiful; graceful
    婀娜 ― ēnuó ― lithe and graceful
* (alt. form 娿) Used in 媕婀 (“indecisive”).

#### Compounds

* 娜婀
* 婀娜 (ēnuó)
* 婀娜多姿 (ēnuóduōzī)
* 媕婀 (ān'ē)

### References

* “婀”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* charm
* flirtation

#### Readings

* Go-on: あ (a)
* Kan-on: あ (a)
* Kun: あだ (ada, 婀)、あだっぽい (adappoi, 婀っぽい)、たおやか (taoyaka, 婀やか)

## Korean
### Hanja

婀 • (a) (hangeul 아, revised a, McCune–Reischauer a)
* be beautiful
* be graceful

## Vietnamese
### Han character

婀: Hán Nôm readings: a
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### References

* Nom Foundation