wěi
comply
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 尾 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 娓
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
active | ||
to speak in a pleasant and captivating manner (idiom) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3999th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+5A13 |
Shuowen | “娓,順也。从女,尾聲。讀若媚。” |
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