Chinese Character 媧 Meanings and components.

Form

媧

Meaning

媧 meaning[3] in English

Surname Wa.

Sister Of Legendary Emperor Fu Xi 伏羲.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 媧 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are female (女) , and surname Guo (咼)

Its radical[1] is: 女 (nv3) which means: Female, Woman, Daughter, .女nv3female

In cangjie it is written with VBBR

How to write 媧

To write媧wa1surname Wa you should write a combination of 女nv3female , 咼guo1surname Guo arranged in a 吅 shape:

女 + 咼 = 媧

媧 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 媧 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 媧, looks as follow:

媧
Pinyin:wa1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Surname Wa . Sister Of Legendary Emperor Fu Xi 伏羲
女
Pinyin:nv3
Meaning[3]: Female . Woman . Daughter
咼
Pinyin:guo1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Guo
冎
Pinyin:gua3 Shape:一
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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