# 娥

| 娥 | U+5A25, &#23077; 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 4345$_0$, composition ⿰女我)

#### Derived characters

* 𠹷, 𫶏, 𦶥, 𬷭

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: 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
### Glyph origin

| | 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 / 形声, OC *ŋaːl): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 我 (OC *ŋaːlʔ)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): é (e$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄜˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): ngo$^4$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): ngò
    (Hailu, HRS): ngo
* Eastern Min (BUC): ngò̤
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gor$^2$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): ngô͘
    (Teochew, Peng'im): ngo$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: é
*** Zhuyin: ㄜˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: é
*** Wade–Giles: o$^2$
*** Yale: é
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: er
*** Palladius: э (e)
*** Sinological IPA : /ˀɤ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: ngo$^4$
*** Yale: ngòh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: ngo$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ngo$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /ŋɔː²¹/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngò
*** Hakka Romanization System: ngo$^ˇ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: ngo$^2$
*** Sinological IPA: /ŋo¹¹/
** (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
*** Hakka Romanization System: ngo
*** Sinological IPA: /ŋo⁵⁵/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: ngò̤
*** Sinological IPA : /ŋo⁵³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: gor$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /kɒ¹³/
* Southern Min
** (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: ngo$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ngô
*** Sinological IPA : /ŋo⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: nga
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 |
| Baxter | nga |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ŋɑ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ŋɑ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ŋɑ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ŋa/ |
| Li Rong | /ŋɑ/ |
| Wang Li | /ŋɑ/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ŋɑ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | é |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | ngo$^4$ |
* 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
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) good; beautiful
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) beautiful woman
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, Chinese mythology) Short for 娥皇 (Éhuáng, “Ehuang”).
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, Chinese mythology) Short for 嫦娥 (Cháng'é, “Chang'e, the Chinese goddess of the moon”).
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) eyebrow
* a surname

### Usage notes

This character is now chiefly used as female personal names.

### Compounds

* 姮娥 (Héng'é)
* 娥妝 / 娥妆
* 娥姣
* 娥娥
* 娙娥 / 𫰛娥
* 娥皇 (Éhuáng)
* 娥眉 (éméi)
* 娥輪 / 娥轮
* 嫦娥 (Cháng'é)
* 嫦娥奔月
* 嬌娥 / 娇娥 (jiāo'é)
* 宮娥 / 宫娥
* 常娥 (Cháng'é)
* 曹娥江 (Cáo'éjiāng)
* 曹娥碑
* 月娥
* 月裡嫦娥 / 月里嫦娥
* 湘娥
* 竇娥冤 / 窦娥冤
* 粉娥
* 素娥 (Sù'é)
* 羲娥
* 青娥 (qīng'é)
* 鬧娥 / 闹娥

### References

* “娥”, 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–
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “娥”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 59.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(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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