é
be beautiful
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 我 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 娥
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
good | ||
Chang'e, the lady in the moon (Chinese mythology) | ||
(fig.) beautiful woman |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.3043% of movies
3129th most common character in movies
2784th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+5A25 |
Shuowen | “娥，帝堯之女，舜妻。娥皇，字也。秦晉謂好曰娙娥。从女，我聲。” |
Sources
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
