女娃 (Nǚ wá): meaning and stroke order
女娃 (Nǚ wá) means mythological daughter of Fiery Emperor 炎帝 who turned into bird Jingwei 精卫 after drowning.
女娃
- Simplified
- 女娃
- Traditional
- 女娃 (same form)
- Pinyin
- Nǚ wá
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Stroke order of 女娃
女
- nǚ female; woman
- rǔ old variant of 汝[ru3]
- 3 strokes
Stroke by stroke
娃
- wá baby; doll
- 9 strokes
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Meaning of 女娃
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Nǚ wá
- mythological daughter of Fiery Emperor 炎帝[Yan2 di4] who turned into bird Jingwei 精衛|精卫[Jing1 wei4] after drowning
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nǚ wá
- (dialect) girl
Radicals of the characters
- 女
- Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 3 strokes
- 娃
- Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 9 strokes · 女 on the left, 圭 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.
女娃 in our stories
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这只鸟原来是太阳神炎帝最小的女儿，名字叫女娃。
zhè zhī niǎo yuánlái shì tàiyáng shén Yándì zuì xiǎo de nǚ'ér míngzi jiào Nǚwá
The bird was once the youngest daughter of the sun god Yandi, and her name was Nüwa.
From the story Jingwei fills the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8
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).