女娲 (Nǚ wā): meaning and stroke order
女娲 (Nǚ wā) means Nüwa (creator of humans in Chinese mythology).
女娲
- Simplified
- 女娲
- Traditional
- 女媧
- Pinyin
- Nǚ wā
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Stroke order of 女娲
女
- nǚ female; woman
- rǔ old variant of 汝[ru3]
- 3 strokes
Stroke by stroke
娲
- Wā surname Wa; sister of legendary emperor Fuxi 伏羲[Fu2 xi1]
- 10 strokes
- Traditional form: 媧
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Meaning of 女娲
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Nǚ wā
Traditional 女媧
- Nüwa (creator of humans in Chinese mythology)
Radicals of the characters
- 女
- Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 3 strokes
- 娲
- Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 10 strokes · 女 on the left, 呙 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
女娲 in our stories
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看到自己亲手创造的人类在灾难中挣扎，女神女娲心如刀割。
kàndào zìjǐ qīnshǒu chuàngzào de rénlèi zài zāinàn zhōng zhēngzhá nǚshén Nǚwā xīn rú dāo gē
Seeing the humans she had made with her own hands struggling in the disaster, the goddess Nüwa felt as if a knife were cutting her heart.
From the story Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).